From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-04-23T16:59:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on .NET (was Re: A Ruby WishList)


On Apr 22, 2004, at 11:57 PM, James, Roshan (Cognizant) wrote:

> //|Don't get me wrong, all I am saying is that the .net is geared to go
> //|places and it already is in the enterprise spehere. The merits of
> //|platform that provides a true level playing field across
> //languages is
> //|slowing showing its strenght in the enterprise.
> //
> //Ow ow ow. The concept of a Microsoft platform providing a
> //"true level playing field" for anything just made by brain hurt.
>
> Hey, backoff. You probably don't know enough about the CLR 
> architecture,
> which is why. If you are really interested in technology, go read
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sscliess/chapter/ch01.pdf, you might
> understand what I was trying to say.

I think that was a reasonable statement. Given MS's track record, I can 
see why someone would find it difficult to believe that they would be 
truly interested in leveling a playing field. They are a corporation, 
and most people realize that corporations only serve their own 
interests, and the interests of their stockholders. They got in trouble 
in trouble already once for un-leveling the playing field between 
languages (remember the whole java thing?)

To paraphrase Orson Wells, "The playing field is level; just some areas 
are more level than others."


--Mark