Re: Micro$oft is at it again...

[Tim Gray <tgray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I believe MS may be thinking is that need to tap in to the wealth
of free software out there...  "Mainstream" computer users are beginning
to notice Linux and it's vendors and developers are rapidly getting it
ready for a meagerly competent person to boot and run.  MS may see a
(distant) day when Joe User says to his buddy "I bought this computer
because it has Linux on it instead of Windows, because there just aren't
any really good free programs for it."

By getting this out there and getting programmers to begin using it to
write programs for multiple platforms and such, MS can then begin
tweaking C# in ways that will influence HOW PEOPLE CODE THINGS...  And
that's a road I'd rather carpet bomb than travel.

awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:
> 
> > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2128454.html
> > They've made up another programming language: C# (C sharp, like in
> > music).
> > <PUN quality="bad">This one might hit a sour note...</PUN>
> 
> <PUN>I'll wager this project falls "flat", or given the jeering tone
> of most reports, never get's "played out". </PUN>  But seriously
> why on earth would m$ ever produce a properly cross-platform
> language?  their whole strategy over the past decade has been
> anti-cross-platform.  (Unless you view Win9x, WinNT, and WinY2K
> as seperate platforms, which they sort of are, like CP/M and DOS).