Comment Re:"Cross platform" (Score 1) 308
I'll believe it when I see it - (like Vist working!)
Many of us old timers are STILL waiting for NT / WIN32 to be "POSIX compliant"... "Pluggable API Layers"... and "Open Playing Fields for Developers"... (ROFL)
It all sounds like just another yet-to-be-broken promise from the SAME people who still haven't figured out that FileListeners depend upon things like "file path characters" - HEY GUYS: Most of the WORLD is not using "\\"! You ever gonna encapsulate THAT??
So no matter what the intent of the "Open" statement, just how much ANYone ever gets to run outside of the CLR is TBD. XBOX or Linux, methinks that SOMEone will probably have to leave a LOT behind... somewhere.
Also keep in mind that we are talking about Microsoft here - The guys who "code first, design later." In such a weenie wonderland, we should be thankfull that MS could ransom so much IP from Borland for a mere $100 Million... While .NET is the first thing that MS ever did right, they had to steal it.
(LOL)
Many of us old timers are STILL waiting for NT / WIN32 to be "POSIX compliant"... "Pluggable API Layers"... and "Open Playing Fields for Developers"... (ROFL)
It all sounds like just another yet-to-be-broken promise from the SAME people who still haven't figured out that FileListeners depend upon things like "file path characters" - HEY GUYS: Most of the WORLD is not using "\\"! You ever gonna encapsulate THAT??
So no matter what the intent of the "Open" statement, just how much ANYone ever gets to run outside of the CLR is TBD. XBOX or Linux, methinks that SOMEone will probably have to leave a LOT behind... somewhere.
Also keep in mind that we are talking about Microsoft here - The guys who "code first, design later." In such a weenie wonderland, we should be thankfull that MS could ransom so much IP from Borland for a mere $100 Million... While
(LOL)
