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Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
OOP, performance, C# on non-MS platforms top subscriber concerns
Object-oriented analysis & design is the topic of most interest to subscribers of my mailing list, with fundamentals of object-oriented programming coming in second. Tuning C# for performance is next, the top-most .NET-specific interest and a topic of perennial interest. I might have guessed these results, but I was surprised to see that "C# on non-Microsoft platforms" comes next, outperforming, for instance, .NET Remoting, multimedia programming, Compact .NET Framework, etc. Did I mention that Thinking in C#, which is available for digital download, works pretty darn well with mono?
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Jason Whittington quoted this: Matt Gripes wrote I'm glad Ximian wrote a C# port to linux, but, at the end of the day, is .NET going to be a uni-platform technology? [Thinking In .NET]
And then Jason added: This problem is one I've been thinking about a lot lately....The real question in my mind is how Microsoft is going to treat the ECMA specification....Library support on different platforms is sure to vary week-to-week, so let's discount those for a second and concentrate on the fundamentals of the runtime.... [More]
While I share Jason's interest in whether Microsoft will "play fair" by the standards process, I think that library standardization is the driver of cross-platform deployments (I'm thinking about the history of C/C++). I never agreed with Sun's contention that programmers would be "tricked" into platform-specifics by typing "//@Import Win32.dll" (or whatever the exact syntax was), but with C# there is no tool that tells you "This code uses only ECMA standard classes and local assemblies." Without that... Wait a second... Geez, that'd be a useful tool to write...
9:01:25 AM
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Information Awareness.
This article should have been an indictment of how the government has failed to protect the voters from identity fraud, and instead protects only the banks and government bureaucrats. In fact, the government is completely impotent to prevent similar and ongoing fraud -- the problems with identity security across the entire economic infrastructure are so systemic and deep that it will take work on many fronts to patch them all. The paper should just say, "Government surrenders in war on identity fraud. Three poor people jailed; 30,000 screwed. You're next and there's nothing you can do about it. Government war against people who copy lame Courtney Love music progressing nicely." via [Better Living Through Software]
(Am I the only one who likes Courtney Love's music?)
8:26:49 AM
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