[Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution

[Roger Taylor]

At 01:03 PM 9/16/2010, you wrote:


>Roger, I applaud your efforts and service to the CoCo community. I'm 
>not a programmer
>so have no right to gripe, so take this little rant with a grain of salt!
>
>I really hate all this stuff that uses Microsoft proprietary 
>components like the
>.NET frame work and Visual Studio. The sole purpose it to make 
>Windows a requirement.
>That's just playing dirty in this day and age, especially since Windows is the
>dominant OS anyway... they plan on forcing it to remain so.


Using .NET and Windows wasn't my idea so you would have to buy 
Windows.  I wish that someone could clone or emulate the .NET system 
on other platforms and we'd be done with it.  My Portal-9 and Rainbow 
IDE will run under Wine in Linux which means someone went great 
lengths to emulate the Windows API.

One thing I've noticed is that Visual Basic .NET (not to be confused 
with some sort of BASIC interpreter) and Java are similar.  Both are 
object oriented and can be translated to each other "easily".   This 
might mean that eventually someone could take my Pheonix IDE source 
code in VB.NET and come up with a Java version.  The sad thing about 
VB.NET is that the name implies that it's some sort of BASIC compiler 
that produces slow interpreted code which perhaps scares off a lot of 
serious coders.  I'm getting optimized code and it runs faster than 
the Rainbow IDE which is written in 100% assembly.  This is one of 
the best programming languages I've dealth with and couldn't be more 
pleased with the power.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5034904.html

http://www.beelucid.com/


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~ Roger Taylor