Warp wrote:

>   However, the little I have heard about .NET, it doesn't sound
> all that bad.

The install binary is pretty vast though... :-S

> If I'm not mistaken, it makes it easy to develop
> language-independent modules (for example, you could develop a
> library module in C++, ASP, C# or probably even Java, and use it
> in any of the other languages at will). I might have understood
> wrongly what .NET is about, though.

That's the general impression I got too...

>   Perhaps a bit surprisingly, Microsoft even has some open-source
> projects, under OSI-compliant licenses. For example:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Template_Library

Apparently it doesn't provide everything that the closed-source version 
does. (I.e. part of the class library isn't there.) However, without 
having a detailed understanding of what the CS version provides and what 
isn't in the OS version, it's hard to make an intelligent comment about 
how significant that is.

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