Subject: RE: [xsl] Microsoft CLR (was: XSLT 1.1 comments) From: Adam Van Den Hoven <Adam.Hoven@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:52:32 -0800 |
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > That sure sounds like Microsoft's definition of cross-platform: it > runs on five different versions of Windows. That is just snippy. All they are saying is that Microsoft isn't in the business of building services for operating systems other than Microsofts own. Remember .NET is far more than just the CLR. > Translation: Somebody might do this, but we won't. And frankly we > doubt it's possible. And even if it is possible, we're going to teach > everyone to rely on the Windows API that isn't available elsewhere. Actually no that isn't true at all. {Note I'm not an expert at .NET but then who besides MS folk are at this point} From what I've heard from MS reps, this is just not true. .Net is built around frameworks. These frameworks are OS agnostic but each implementation would have to map its own OS services to these frameworks. (If you care check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/dotnet/cpref/cpre f_start.htm) There are other frameworks that are in the Microsoft namespace which are not part of the requirements for implementation but they are mostly for interaction with existing COM componants. Your "translation" is also highly unfair. MS isn't really in the business of creating services for other peoples systems. SQL Server runs only under Windows (as far as I know) so now they should be building apps for their competitors? Don't be silly. From what I've heard from MS reps is that they want people to build implementations for other platforms. They want to see other languages mapped to CLI (the current list includes APL, Cobol, Component Pascal, Eiffel, Haskell, Mercury, Oberon, Perl, Python, Scheme, SmallTalk, Standard ML) they just aren't going to do it themselves. There are enough other who want to do it. To be honest your comments are more akin to "It comes from Microsoft so it must be avoided at all costs." Not very nice. adam XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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