Re: C++ applets.

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From: Tom Shelton (tom_at_YOUKNOWTHEDRILLmtogden.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:46:27 -0600

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:13:39 -0300, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:

> begin In <rs6ip1-vmc.ln1@lexi2.athghost7038suus.net>, on 06/09/2004
> at 04:00 AM, The Ghost In The Machine
> <ewill@aurigae.athghost7038suus.net> said:
>
>>You'll have to clarify that response.
>
> Just what it says: .net code is not cross-platform. It is basically
> redmondware, is oriented to redmond operating system and won't run on
> all of the platforms that, e.g., Java will.
>

You're going to have to clarify that... Are you talking about .NET or the
ECMA/ISO C#/CLI? Currently, Rotor - the ECMA/ISO reference version of the
C# compiler and CLI runs on Windows, FreeBSD, and MacOS X. Mono runs on
all of these and a lot more...

Code written and compiled in VS.NET can generally be run on Linux and the
Mono runtime with out change (with the caveat that the library classes are
currently implemented - which is becomming less of an issue as time
passes.). I would say that it is definately cross platform. As cross
platform as Java? Not yet. But Java, like .NET, is only as cross platform
as the number of systems the java runtime has been ported to. The Java
runtime has been around a lot more years - it has had time to be ported to
many OS's/architectures. But for me, right now, C# is as cross platform as
I need it to be - it runs on windows and linux x86.

>>What I meant is that, once properly written code is compiled using
>>any .NET-supported compiler (C# among them), the resulting assembly
>>can be run anywhere if the libraries are available
>
> That's still not true. FTP whatever libraries you want to, e.g., z/OS,
> and you still won't be able to run your .net code.

If there was no runtime for z/OS, then that would apply to your java code
as well. Java wasn't always as cross platform as it is today.... 

-- 
Tom Shelton

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