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What's your *favorite* programming language and *why* ?
mrainey:
My favorite language remains Emergence BASIC, even though the developer is selling it because of poor health and future support is a big question mark.
I'm not a hardcore programmer. Emergence is pretty straightforward for me to understand and code with. It's extremely stable and creates compact, freestanding executables that run on XP thru Win 7 (and often on older Windows versions). It has the power to handle just about anything, given the right coder.
wraith808:
The odds of have the correct version of .Net on a random machine (Internet café, at the office, etc) are quite small.
-PPLandry (January 27, 2010, 04:20 PM)
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Ummm... what?
PPLandry:
The odds of have the correct version of .Net on a random machine (Internet café, at the office, etc) are quite small.
-PPLandry (January 27, 2010, 04:20 PM)
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Ummm... what?
-wraith808 (January 27, 2010, 08:27 PM)
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http://www.nbdtech.com/Blog/archive/2009/05/25/what-percentage-of-users-have-the-.net-framework-installed-and.aspx
as of may 2009:
Version Percentage
none 17%
1.0 0%
1.1 3%
2.0 24%
3.0 30%
3.5 5%
3.5SP1 21%
Or, to put it another way:
17% of visitors don’t have .net at all
80% of visitors are able to run .net 2.0 software without any lengthy download or installation.
56% of visitors have .net 3.0 or later and can use WPF, WCF and WF.
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wraith808:
The odds of have the correct version of .Net on a random machine (Internet café, at the office, etc) are quite small.
-PPLandry (January 27, 2010, 04:20 PM)
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So you consider 80% to be quite small? I've never tried to run a .NET 2.0 app on any machine and not had it installed. Even for 3.0 56% is decent penetration less than a year after release... I remember when VB6 had been out for about the same time and had less penetration.
PPLandry:
The odds of have the correct version of .Net on a random machine (Internet café, at the office, etc) are quite small.
-PPLandry (January 27, 2010, 04:20 PM)
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So you consider 80% to be quite small? I've never tried to run a .NET 2.0 app on any machine and not had it installed. Even for 3.0 56% is decent penetration less than a year after release... I remember when VB6 had been out for about the same time and had less penetration.
-wraith808 (January 28, 2010, 07:56 AM)
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It is very good, indeed.
My point was strickly in regards to portable applications. If you carry your app + data on an USB stick, you want to be able to use it anytime, anywhere. Only a COM app + an optional manifest file (whether VB or C++) can guarantee you this. With a .Net app, you may or you may not be able to run your app. You don't know.
If you're out of the office, on the road or in a meeting or something and you need your data, 56% or 80% is just not enough. You need 100%.
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