I'll take this a step further. Search Google for "de icaza .net".
Miguel de Icaza produced the GNOME desktop and founded Ximian/Mono. He's
quoted all over the place discussing what .NET has to offer beyond the MS
arena, for Open Source and wide interoperability. I think that de Icaza
explains .NET better than Microsoft has... at least from a developer's point
of view.
ActiveState has a Perl environment "Visual Perl" that seems to be
capable of interacting in a .NET sort of way with other .NET languages,
which is pretty cool.
.NET is worth investigating if for no other reason than that it
seems to be the MS answer to Sun's Java *and* IBM's WebSphere. And it has
a lot of room to grow.
I'm interested because I just got a job with an all-Windows shop
migrating apps from C++ to .NET. Except for Windows workstations and a
little bit of MS ODBC, all my professional experience has been on Tandem,
Solaris, and AIX. I hope .NET is as cool as de Icaza says it is, because
Windows kinda creeps me out. It's just very weird having all of that
abstraction/secret code between me and what the OS is doing.
-Chris
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Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 1:45 PM
To: Rich Parker; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: New to list, question.
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:40:02 -0700, Rich Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Hi,
> I've been involved with Perl for many years (too many to count right
> now). One question has been bugging me lately, and maybe it's because I
> don't know enough about it, or maybe it's because I've been "Not the
> biggest fan" of Mr. Bill and his org... Either way, I'm attempting to
> learn about .NET (Don't panic here, I'm just looking for some
information).
>
> Mainly, how does, or can the .NET framework be of benefit to the Perl
> developer at large? Am I going to get any "Bang for my buck" using Perl
> in the .NET environment? But WAIT, I'm working on Linux Systems, how
> does that effect what I am asking?? If someone could provide me a link
> to some articles about .NET from many different perspectives, preferably
> NOT by MS (If you catch my drift here). I want to see if this framework
> is going to be something of use to me.
>
> Thanks for ANY help you can provide.
You may want to check out the MONO project:
http://go-mono.org/
http://danconia.org
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