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One thing i find interesting about J++ (i have Visual J++ that came with VS6, though i never used it myself - and i do not think it even works in modern Windows
by badsectoracula 6y ago
One thing i find interesting about J++ (i have Visual J++ that came with VS6, though i never used it myself - and i do not think it even works in modern Windows) is that it also had its own relatively big framework that pretty much died with the language. It is like this language was made, existed for one or two versions and then the entire effort was thrown out of the window.
- pjmlp 6y agoThey couldn't have done otherwise given Sun's lawsuit. If you read Ext-VOS paper and the history of F#, that was how the upcoming COM Runtime was rebooted to use a managed language runtime. Hence why when one knows all these puzzle pieces, UWP seems so close to what they were trying out back then.
- int_19h 6y agoIIRC parts of that framework were the basis for .NET libraries, e.g. WFC -> System.Drawing / WinForms. Just compare the class names: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-6.0/aa286472(v=vs.60) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstu... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.f... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.drawing https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.drawing