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Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
An important affirmation of the core strengths of C++: "Games are going to be written mostly in C++ for the next umpteen-thousand years. Even if MS comes through with their promise to make managed DirectX run at 98% performance, you won't be seeing C# games on the shelves. You're probably never gonna see any form of CLR running on a console." <snip>
[Sam Gentile's Weblog]
Gotta' disagree on this one: I'd be willing to bet my Dreamcast that within 36 months, a top 10 game will be written or scripted in managed code. From Myst to Deer Hunter to Roller Coaster Tycoon, the PC market routinely embraces games that one can imagine driving from managed code.
9:13:16 AM 
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I'm a judge for the .NET vs. J2EE Smackdown Next Week
I've been asked to be one of the judges for next Monday's .NET vs. J2EE "Smackdown" event in Redwood Shores, which will have reps from Microsoft and Sun slinging code on stage. It ought to be a blast and apparently there are still plenty of seats available, so if you're in the Bay Area, check it out.
If you're worried that I'm hopelessly biased towards .NET as author of Thinking in C# (release candidate available for download), you may not know that in addition to being editor of Computer Language magazine, I was the first non-Sun employee to write a technical article on Java, wrote the Servlets Solution column for Java Pro, and led several EJB development projects. And really, referees don't do much except set up the challenges.
But what do you know? There's a reference to the Pet Shop in the preparatory material. As I wrote a few days ago, I think the Pet Shop Application must not be the basis for any real discussion of enterprise development productivity or performance. So I'm looking for alternatives: If you were me, what simple question or challenge would you present to best frame the questions of enterprise developer productivity and enterprise application performance?
8:16:11 AM
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