From: Matt Harrington <matt@...>
Date: 2000-12-22T16:08:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7942] Re: Ruby on .NET? A Perl Experience

On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:05:30PM +0900, Conrad Schneiker wrote:

> AFAIK, the all-important libraries are not going
> to be open sourced or publically/independently standardized, which
> AFAIK may give many (but of course, by no means all, and maybe not
> even the majority of) big IT managers serious reservations. 

details of what was submitted to ECMA can be found here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/default.asp

i skimmed it and it seems that MS submitted C#, the CLR (runtime), and most
of the .NET Framework.  the notable omissions from the Framework were data
access and GUI classes.  so, no ADO.NET and no WinForms.  there might be
other omissions; like i say, i only skimmed it.  as an aside, i found it
interesting that MS included PDF formats of the ECMA submissions.  
normally they use ms-word & the free word viewer in circumstances that call
for PDF & Acrobat Reader in the rest of the world.

> Meanwhile, what do others think about SOAP?

setting aside the security concerns others have mentioned, it's very easy
to use and a lot of fun.  i also agree with an earlier poster in that i
think it will be around for quite some time.

---Matt