RE: Java vs .NET was: RPGIII compiler vs Visual Basic

[MWalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Wasn't the AS/400 knocked for being a proprietary system for years? Hey,
<knock knock knock>, IBM Marketing, anyone there?

Thanks,

Mark

Mark D. Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
CCX, Inc.
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ccxinc.com


                                                                           
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If this is true, then Microsoft is pointing their ship directly into the
deep waters of proprietary code.

Joe


> From: Steve Richter
>
> ( I was going to suggest you derive your data access classes from
> SqlCommand and SqlConnection.  But I see that MS has sealed those and
> many other .NET classes.  Which means they cant be derived.  Which
> makes it harder to use MySQL in .NET code! )

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