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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (158746)	2/14/2002 1:14:44 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

wbmw, you deserve the Unobservance Award today Suppose an Intel processor is a race car with square wheels. Now suppose that Intel releases a tool which you can use to work on the wheels before every race to turn them from square to octagon. Think of it this way. If the wheels were not square to begin with, there would be much less of a need for this tool. And the whole thing goes against the elegance of the new .net languages (vb.net, C# and Java). The concept is: you write elegant code with your tools, MSFT or VM author provides the environment where this code will run. Software gets written faster, is less buggy. Now Intel realizes that their processors are not efficient in this new world of software, and tries to insert / impose additional steps on software developers in order to mask shortcomings of Intel products. I don't see this strategy winning a lot of friends. One thing though is that the VS.NET has the new generation of tools (VB 7, C#) and the old generation C++, which can still generate unmanaged code. With the old generation of code, the tools can be useful, especially to compile SPEC code. Joe