"One Bullet is never enough" Paper

John La Rooy larooy at xtar.co.nz
Mon May 20 14:23:15 EDT 2002

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What makes you think they would follow their own standards? Who is going to slap
their fingers when they start adding non-standard extensions? Which they will of
course get away with when 90% of the developers get to play with the new toys.

It'll be the java debacle all over with noone to answer to at all.

John

 On Mon, 20 May 2002 18:44:01 +1000
"Patrick" <postmisc at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> 
> "phil hunt" <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:slrnaeh8il.gf3.philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk...
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge(*), C# is the only high-level language
> > designed explicitly to lock programmers in to a vendor.
> 
> Submitting the language to a standards body and opening it up to other
> implementors is hardly a clever way to lock programmers into a specific
> vendor.
> 
> C# has been standardised by ECMA, which leaves anyone free to provide their
> own implementation. http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ecma-334.htm
> 
> At least one non-Microsoft implementation of C# already exists:
> http://www.go-mono.org
> 
> 
> 
>

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