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Re: SMOKE
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @11:18
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Yes, but then you're creating a language that makes calls to a toolkit library. .NET is more like Java, in that it targets a virtual machine, which waaay back in the day we'd call it "like P-Code": a binary file that is executed by an interpreter. .NET and Java can call Qt, since it's a toolkit library (assuming that the VM supports API extensions a la libraries, which they, like all modern VMs, both do).
A .NET binary should run on any machine, but has the overhead hit of being abstracted from the system, with the expected performance and features issues. Java forged the way, so those issues have been minimized, but still exist. A Qt/whatever application can run on any supported platform if you have the right compiler or interpreter, a KDE/whatever application works the same, but you need the kdelibs. It's lower level, and the binary isn't portable, since it's targeted to that platform.
(To *really* confuse things, Java is both a VM and a language, and the language can be compiled and targeted to a platform, resulting in executable code not needing the VM.)
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Evan (who just woke up, needs to run out the door, and may have said something stupid without rereading. Correct at will, just be gentle. :) ) |
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