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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JC Jaros who wrote (47621)	7/12/2000 5:04:48 PM
From: david_si	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

JC: "Win32 Perl runs on Windows only. You need to buy a different book to learn it. That's only the one I *know about. I would assume that the others (Python, etc) are not dissimilar. --- The bottom line is that developers who use MS tools, layers, clouds, whatever, write for Windows and only Windows. -JCJ" These languages won't be used for Windows, they'll target the .NET platform, or runtime. As for languages that support Windows-only extensions, some say "if you write with that language you have to run it on Windows." Yet everyone who uses and appreciates the extensions say "if you write for Windows, you can use this language because it supports the extensions." Many developers are disappointed that they can't use Java to write Windows-only apps, because Sun wouldn't allow the extensions. No one was hurt by the extensions except Sun's agenda, since they could easily be turned off. The .NET platform will be on more than one OS too. That's been made a point.