Re: .NET

Adam Roslon wrote:

.NET makes sense for server side applications, but I still don't see much benefit for desktop applications 
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Actually, this sentence proved, that you haven't even looked at it for the last half decade.
There are things like CAS. So you can have a client application that only needs to talk to your server.
If it doesn't need informations about the system it's running on, the user can start it _directly_ from the Internet without _any_
worries it might have some malicious impact on his system.
Heck, you won't even have access to the HDD, Registry, clipboard,... if you or the user doesn't want your app to.

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, and as far as using it for real-time systems, I don't think it will 
> ever be useful just as Java never got there.
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Windows is not a real time OS, making that point a bit pointless to me...

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> I think the moment MS begins to use .NET for its
> Office suite, it's time to switch to .NET
>

What about InfoPath? Gosh! Right, there is already .Net in Office.
So I think I'll see you in .Net NGs... *g*
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