Re: .Net Impressions, Right Or Wrong

  • From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:16:14 -0500

It depends on the languages, Jim.
Of course, in the end they all have to communicate at some level, but in the 
case of java and C, java compiles down to its own little interpreted virtual 
machine, while C compiles down to a .exe that runs on the native hardware -- so 
you have to specify "native" in the declarations in java for the functions that 
are actually implemented in C, and the whole thing somehow agrees not to crash 
your system *smile*
--le

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:44 PM
  Subject: RE: .Net Impressions, Right Or Wrong


  Hi,

  I may not be saying this correctly, but here goes. I was reading a book today 
about this, and it seemed that they were saying that you write in the language 
of your choosing. Then, something takes it and translates it into something 
called a Common Intermediate language, and from there, some of the stuff gets 
put into a common runtime language and that's what makes it work for many 
languages. This is just my attempt to understand how this works. But the book I 
was reading said that most of the time you program in .Net, you're really 
learning how to use the .net framework classes. What little time you spend in a 
given language, you spend hooking things up so that the various .net stuff you 
use works on the data from your program. 

   

  How's that for babble?

   

  Jim

   

   

   

  Jim Homme

  Skype: jim.homme

  "Every day's a gift."

   

  From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RicksPlace
  Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:50 PM
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: .Net Impressions, Right Or Wrong

   

  I have not done that much. Once i had either a couple of files or Webpages 
written in vb and C#. The files just had the .vb and .cs extensions and when 
the project compiled it translated them. Other than that I'm not sure how it 
would work. I work in the Express modules which are for one language. I guess 
Visual Studio would have facillities to handle that since it has multiple 
languages but I'm not sure how you would implement it.

  I know that whichever language you use it is converted into IML which is the 
same for all the .net languages. Likely the compiler reads the file extension 
and converts the source code to IML based on a translator for that language and 
then the IML is merged to create the finished translated code.

  Rick USA

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Jim 

    To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

    Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:35 PM

    Subject: RE: .Net Impressions, Right Or Wrong

     

    Hi,

    I'm one of these people who still thinks computers are part magic. How does 
it work when you have two languages in one program. Do you have two files?

     

    Thanks.

     

    Jim

     

    Jim Homme

    Skype: jim.homme

    "Every day's a gift."

     

    From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of qubit
    Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 4:22 PM
    To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: Re: .Net Impressions, Right Or Wrong

     

    lol -- imagine COBOL.NET -- sounds like an oxy moron...

    I think you are right, although the languages should be able to support OO 
style in order to integrate .NET.

    and if you have multiple languages in one program, you have to be sure you 
interface correctly to take into account calling conventions -- passing by 
value vs by reference, handling of arrays, etc.

    --le

     

      ----- Original Message ----- 

      From: Homme, James 

      To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

      Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 1:09 PM

      Subject: .Net Impressions, Right Or Wrong

       

      Hi,

      Am I getting the right impression about this? From what I'm reading, you 
can pick many different languages. They all use the .Net Framework Classes. 
Therefore, it only matters which language you use if you are working in an 
environment where that language is used. For example, if you work somewhere and 
they use C# with .net, then you'd want to learn C#. If you worked or had fun 
somewhere in which they use VB.Net, then you'd want to learn that language. The 
same would apply if you wanted to use Python in the .Net environment. You could 
use Python, but you'd be able to access the classes in the .Net framework, but 
with Python. And the same would go for Cobol, assuming there is some sort of 
Cobol something that uses .Net. Is that anywhere in the ball park?

       

      Thanks.

       

      Jim

       

       

       

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