Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Surprise, Surprise. Micro$oft Makes Formats Complicated To Exclude LibreOffice Date: 21 Jul 2025 18:41:18 GMT Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <18544b6cd897c680$207113$373016$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uL7/Gzv5C5jaSAKsdNNlPwTrOfZ5jHfxmtRcImCwAcp8Nn5EUU Cancel-Lock: sha1:yh9gquvFzUu57JY4mobaTaufYfE= sha256:cpG9AGBAu9teYpHNoe4Rg2SLmP0UHvQlbvI2V7KhRkI= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:693740 comp.os.linux.misc:69817 On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:44:45 +0000, Farley Flud wrote: > They tried to replace the Java language with their own knock off junk > called .NET C# and they were somewhat successful. That was the second attempt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J++ I think I still have the DVD around someplace. It showed promise compared to Visual C++ and, on the Windows platform, to Sun Java. I had hopes for Java but when it switched from AWT to Swing it became bloated. 'Java app running too slow? Buy a faster machine with more memory and quit your bitching.' C# learned from both Java and C++/MFC and is an improvement on both. Microsoft also learned that hating on Linux isn't productive. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux