OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] About .Net

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gma?l.c?m> May 20, 2008
• 778 views

c.k.lester wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> > c.k.lester wrote:
> > > Why is the .Net download > 60MB? What exactly is .Net?
> > Is 60mb for the runtime or the SDK as well?
> 
> I was only wanting the runtime, so I'm guessing just the runtime.
> 
> > .net is a common language runtime.
> 
> I thought .Net was a language, like Java is a language. Now that I think
> about it, C# is the language... I think. :D

There are many languages.  They get compiled to IL code.  There's even a
.NET version of ooeu.

> > You know how you write a java program, compile it into .class files and then
> > execute it on any platform with the JRE (java runtime environment) ?
> 
> Okay; how is this better than having a cross-platform language, especially
> when .Net is just for Windows (right?)? Java goes everywhere, from what I
> hear. And Euphoria works in multiple platforms.

There are gotchas with java.  There's also Mono, which is basically a 
cross platform .NET implementation.  It may be better if you're working with
a 100% MS stack.  But if you want cross platform, I'd say that Java is 
better.

Matt