[OT] Ada gems

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 08:40:04 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 07:27:38 UTC, eles wrote:
>> ...
>
> For some reason Microsoft did not make that strategic move 
> until much later. I think Bill Gates was the reason, MS pushed 
> Visual Basic too much to be taken seriously… So eventually they 
> had to create their own incompatible "Java" (C#)  in order to 
> keep collecting Windows-tax in the business environment.

An interesting thing for conspiracy theories is how close the new 
Window Runtime model is from Ext-VOS.

Ext-VOS was the next architecture of COM, based on the idea that 
all Windows languages would target it, as a common language 
runtime.

Along the way, they decided to create the CLR instead.

Now the going native wave that hit Microsoft, has made them 
create the Windows Runtime, having .NET compile to native code in 
Windows Phone 8 and create the .NET Native, the ahead-of-time 
native code compiler for .NET.

The main difference with Windows Native Runtime and the old 
Ext-VOS, is the use .NET metadata instead of COM type libraries.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2012/07/05/more-c-net-generics-history-the-msr-white-paper-from-mid-1999.aspx


Java might as well have been, what made them move away from the 
initial design.

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Paulo