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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Bad assumptions
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The argument still exists. Do you go for the better programmer productivity of .NET? Or do you go for the faster download speed of, say, Visual C or Borland's Delphi? (Nick Bradbury wrote FeedDemon in Delphi, for instance).
MS didn't have to have forced that choice on people. I use VisualWorks Smalltalk to build things like BottomFeeder. The download for Bf on Windows? A single executable, 7.2 MB. Smalltalk is a runtime based system, every bit as much as things like Java and C#. But guess what? I don't have to force the download of all the libraries on my users. Not to mention that I can provide them with on the fly updates over the web. And worse than that, I'm the Product Manager, not an engineer - what do I know that MS' top technical talent doesn't?
For starters, I know what technology to start with....
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