OpenEuphoria

Re: About .NET

• Posted by David <dcuny at lanset.com> Aug 03, 2004
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Jeff Houck wrote:

> Microsoft never worried that much about backwards compatibility before so
> why start now?

Actually, Microsoft put a huge amount of work into backward compatability. 
However, there's much more willingness with the latest releases of Windows to 
break compatibility for the sake of "better" technology than there was in the 
past. Witness VB and ASP being .NETified, and breaking backward 
compatibility.

Since .NET code will be better "trusted", I think there's already a strong 
push to move code to .NET. Ironically, since the WinForms library has already 
been declared obsolete in favor of an unwritten new UI, much of the .NET 
development has been on the web, not the desktop, where the UI (from the 
user's point of view) is pretty much platform agnostic.

-- David Cuny