Re: I really hate .NET especially inside Delphi

Chad Z. Hower wrote:

Tim Jarvis [Borland/DTG] wrote:
So yes, its different from C#, but the assembly is perfectly valid,
and works just the same as a C# assembly...just has some additional
Delphi unit naming attributes that the Delphi IDE uses is all.

No it does not. It contains all kinds of Delphi Metadata - that all
shows up in VS intellisense and is completely useless and confusing to
C#, VB or any other user.

Aha!!! I think you inadvertenly stumbled on the *real* objections!
Thanks Chad! This is very, helpful. Really!

This makes perfect sense now. If we could shunt that metadata off to
the side and keep it from showing up in the VS Intellisense, would that
go a long way to allaying all these objections? I mean VB and C# also
generate some language specific meta-data but it is generally hidden
off to the side.

I'll bring this up to the compiler guys and see what we can do.
Reflector has been both a boon and a bane... Folks focus too much on
the back side of the tapestry... you tend to miss the point if that's
all you do. However if the back and the front are too mixed up
together, then I can see how it is confusing.

--
Allen Bauer
Developer Tools Group
Chief Scientist
Borland
http://blogs.borland.com/abauer
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