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

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again Walden

Thanks for that. I was aware that there were betas, and fully expected that 
this would be the source of the information. Of course beta is beta and 
does not set anything in concrete, but I accept that it provides a pretty 
strong indication of how things will likely be.

Your second comment gets to the heart of what I was getting at.

Regards
Evan Harris

At 09:16 a.m. 22/06/2005, you wrote:
> >Another rhetorical question: if the new release of .NET is not out yet,
> how
> >do you know now it does not break anything ?
>
> Betas, CTPs (Community Technology Previews), and RCs (Release
> Candidates). Microsoft has always been good at getting code into the
> developer community's hands LONG before the code goes RTM (Released To
> Manufacturing).
>
> However, I must say that Steve is not correct. 2.0 does break some
> things from 1.1. However, the list is well documented, and has been
> available for a while.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetde
> p/html/listofbreakingchanges.asp
>
> -Walden