[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[John Dallman]

In article <ttd4ta$2j12a$2 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:

> C# and Java are very similar. I don't think MS ever made a secret
> of that.

Microsoft started on .NET during their lawsuit with Sun over their
incomplete-but-extended Java implementation. They seem to have hoped to
replace Java with .NET. 

> There are of course also some differences. C# got
> unsafe blocks with pointers (nobody use them) ...

The main thing those are useful for is calling native code. It's way
easier than using JNI. 

John