Re: [DotGNU]flexible for users, or flexible for developers? (wasRe: User Interfaces)

[David Bradley]

BioChem333 wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 07:32, David Bradley wrote:
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> people to migrate from .NET to DotGNU. Hopefully, we'll have some nice
> extensions to it that will complicate the reverse process too; GNU
> extensions are always nice. :)
>  
That's interesting. The articles I've been reading have been critical of 
Mono and dotGNU success because they're afraid MS will add extensions 
that will become commonly used but, not part of the standard. So is it 
bad when Microsoft does this, but ok when GNU or Mono does this? I 
thought this was why Sun was jumping all over Microsoft because they 
added some extensions to their JVM?

I'm not against adding extensions, but it appears to be a concern of 
many. I think people can make informed decisions on whether to use them 
or not. We've been doing it for ages in C and C++.

David Bradley