Python vs .Net

[David LeBlanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Will Ganz
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 16:21
> To: Etienne Charland; python-list at python.org
> Subject: RE: Python vs .Net
>
>
> :> I would like to compare Python with .Net.
>
> This shouldn't really be titled 'Python vs. Net' but 'Python and .Net' or
> 'Python with .Net'.
>
> IMHO, there is no simple apples to apples comparison that can be made here
> because '.Net' is a framework for many different coding languages. While
> languages(like Python) would run on top of this and use this framework.
> Albeit, in a Microsoft only world(or until they felt like releasing a *NIX
> framework.) My copy of 'Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET' is at the
> office but I can,if you wish, give you a quote that Microsoft is
> prepared to
> release a .Net framework for whatever platform is threatening
> them. How much
> of that is FUD, I cannot say for sure; but John Dvorak said it best when,
> 'You know that Microsoft is serious about a platform when they release a
> version of BASIC for it.'
>
> "The .NET Framework has two main components: the common language
> runtime and
> the .NET Framework class library."
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/c
> pguide/html/cpovrintroductiontonetframeworksdk.asp
>
> Please check this link for VisualPython:
>
> http://www.activestate.com/Products/Visual_Python/
>
> HTH

I'm not sure how .net is anything more then an attempt on MS' part to co-opt
xml technologies and at the same time more completely tie developers to it's
platform?

AFAICT, Visual Python was a technology demonstrator and not a serious
attempt to host Python on the .net runtime...

I would expect Microsoft to release a *nix .net framework shortly after the
perfection of porcine avionics :)

Dave LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA