Re: [newbie] Why is .Net so big? Why no linker?

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From: Norman Yuan (NotReal_at_NotReal.not)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:27:20 -0700

The questions you asked have been beaten to death so many times here and
elsewhere. Some one may want to answer one more time. Just a correction: The
.NET Framework is anout 20MB, not 100MB.The 100MB+ in .NET SDK, witch, of
course, includes the Framework. You only need to install SDK if you want to
develop on .NET, the users, only the Framework is needed if they want to run
.NET app on their computers.

"Luke Skywalker" <luke@tatooine.planet> wrote in message
news:8onsu0hertrb7jqo8rr59tguqbjs9g42l1@4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> While I'm learning more about how to develop under Delphi,
> which, was some of you know, built by the same person who architected
> .Net... I was wondering ...
>
> 1. why is the .Net framework so big, while the object layer on which
> Delphi runs lets you build stand-alone EXEs with something like a
> 300KB fixed cost?
>
> What can possibly require 100MB once the .Net framework is installed
> that couldn't be done like Delphi does?
>
> 2. since MS obviously doesn't want developers to write
> platform-independent apps since that would reduce the lock-in and
> recuring revenues it enjoys with Windows... why bother with bytecode
> with JIT, instead of providing compile-time machine-code and a linker,
> so that, like Delphi or C, developers are free to choose to distribute
> run-times either as stand-alone files, or as libraries linked into the
> EXE?
>
> Thank you
> Luke.

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