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for icon-group-addresses; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 08:45:05 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:11:28 +0200
From: TrolletAtskynetDOTbe <complaint@nospam.org>
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Subject: Re: Icon Wish 2
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Gene Kahn wrote:
>
> No spam <complaint@nospam.org> wrote in message news:<3D862A8E.FBCB5B6F@nospam.org>...
> > Gene Kahn wrote:
> > >
> > > An "Icon.NET", as in VB.NET, is my informal and short name for an
> > > implementation of Icon running inside the Microsoft .NET environment.
> > >
> > Yes, but if .NET is not adopted outside the Microsoft realm, use of it
> > would be highly non-portable ...?
> >
> > Atle
>
> 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?
If I should take a guess with what I think I know, I'd say that the goal
to become /the/ development environment will have to be acheived like
this:
First making .NET /the/ environment for MS devlopment tools,
then the other tools (Borland, ...) - all for the Windows OS.
I would say so far it is realistic.
But further than that? Conquer the *nix world with .NET? I would say the
most they can hope for, is maybe take a bite out the part that maintains
some kind of Windows compatibility.
But both KDE and GNOME have their own frameworks, even Motif has a
framework.
At the risk of being flamed to computer Hell, I'd say GNOME is 'winning'
- Sun has standardized on it, and you can delelop in plain C - yes,
developers like to know what is going on 'under the hood' - at least the
ones we can call Hackers.
The chance of putting .NET on top of CORBA are rather slim if I'm right
about the above.
Atle