Re: introspection in SML

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:09:24 +0000, Jon Harrop <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Microsoft's .NET is not new: it is moving into version 3.5 and most
people
>already migrated.

It is an exaggeration to say "most people have already migrated".
Microsoft would like everyone to think that, but in fact only a small
percentage of Windows developers currently have commercial products
based on .NET.  There is more traction in the freeware/shareware
community, but even there many more programs are C/C++ or VB than C#
or VB.NET.

The code base is even smaller.  Most non-trivial ".NET applications"
rely heavily on legacy components (DLLs, ActiveX controls, COM or DCOM
objects, etc.) that were written using non .NET languages.

George
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