RE: .Net Impressions, Right Or Wrong

  • From: "Jim" <jhomme1028@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:44:01 -0400

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

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"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 <mailto:jhomme1028@xxxxxxxxx>  

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 <mailto:james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  

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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