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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g8HNSNg10407
for icon-group-addresses; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:28:23 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:41:26 -0700
From: Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu>
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To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: Icon Wish 2
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Gene Kahn wrote:
>
>
> Not trying to be a smart-a**, but does anybody really seriously
> believe that .NET will NOT be used by a sizeable number of developers,
> large enough to become a serious alternative development environment
> if not /the/ development environment?
That's a non-issue. The only issue here is: "Will *I* use .NET?". And
the answer is "only if it's available for free on Unix/Linux platforms".
(I realize that sounds arrogant - it isn't meant to be, but rather a
statement that the world I live in has very little to do with Microsoft
Windows and that how big .NET [or J2EE, or XYZ...] becomes in other
people's worlds simply isn't a concern.)
Right now Icon runs quite nicely on *all* the systems I use. If it stops
doing that, I'll stop using Icon - switching platforms to gain access
to the language just doesn't make much sense. [Ok, what it really
means is I'll stop upgrading to new versions of Icon...]
Granted, if my financial well-being depended primarily on my
developing software for Windows, then I would look at .NET
more seriously - *when* it has become a dominant player.
A question - how pervasive is a .NET environment *within* a
language implementation? Would it be possible to hook Icon
in through a (loadable) library without making the language
itself dependent on .NET? Or is .NET pretty much an all or
nothing deal?
-Steve
--
Steve Wampler -- swampler@noao.edu
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota
monax materiam possit materiari?