[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Scott Dorsey]

John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>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. 

Java is a whole bunch of things.  It's an environment, it's a set of 
libraries, and it's a programming language.

C#, ASP.NET, and ActiveX together sort of make up a thing that Microsoft
hoped would replace Java.  C# and .NET had some degree of success anyway.

>> 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. 

Which of course defeats the whole purpose of having a sandbox... but that's
Microsoft...
--scott
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