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#SupportHeForShe
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: your 'console' application would not be runnable as a traditional console-application
I know.
Microsoft is following the GREAT EXAMPLE created by (interpreted) Python. 
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GWBASIC.EXE MYPROG.BAS 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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raddevus wrote: I guess this makes sense?
Every sense, if you think about it... .NET Core had the goal to be platform independent, but truly there is not such a thing as at some point you hit the OS and problems are there...
So they moved the dependency from your code to the loader (dotnet.exe) and left you with a pure DLL. That way they got to the level where code not only can be compiled in any platform, but the result can be run on any...
If it is OK with you:
.NET Core: compile once, run everywhere[^]
ASP.NET Core: compile once, host everywhere[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You can read the text of Neal Stephenson's In The Beginning...was the command line at:
Neal Stephenson's site[^] (download the zip)
It's a very interesting look at how computers became a product.
Neal Stephenson wrote in 1999
Why, then, do I say that Microsoft is not such a great operating systems company? Because the very nature of operating systems is such that it is senseless for them to be developed and owned by a specific company. It's a thankless job to begin with. Applications create possibilities for millions of credulous users, whereas OSes impose limitations on thousands of grumpy coders, and so OS-makers will forever be on the sh*t-list of anyone who counts for anything in the high-tech world. Applications get used by people whose big problem is understanding all of their features, whereas OSes get hacked by coders who are annoyed by their limitations. The OS business has been good to Microsoft only insofar as it has given them the money they needed to launch a really good applications software business and to hire a lot of smart researchers. Now it really ought to be jettisoned, like a spent booster stage from a rocket. The big question is whether Microsoft is capable of doing this. Or is it addicted to OS sales in the same way as Apple is to selling hardware?
Interesting that Stephenson understood this way back in 1999. Did Microsoft listen? It feels like it.
You can also get the mobi fully formatted book version at amazon : In The Beginning...was the command line[^]
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Is that the Stephenson who invented the steam train 
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No, he wrote Treasure Island.
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raddevus wrote: The OS business has been good to Microsoft only insofar as it has given them the money they needed to launch a really good applications software business and to hire a lot of smart researchers. Now it really ought to be jettisoned, like a spent booster stage from a rocket.
Permit me for being "Huh"'d by this concept.
If they only make a billion or two dollars/year from Windows O/S, WTF would cause them to stop producing it? What was the purpose of a business, again? Especially a publicly held corporation?
Something related to money if I recall.
On the great scale of "Customer Happiness vs. Net Income", I know where I'd come in if I would be.
Or - put another way - I'd rather be traveling around the world now. Especially in the cold dead of winter, how I'd like to be prancing on a warm beach - but with (for all practical purposes) the same motivation as M$, I'm working to get . . . wait for it . . . wait for it . . . money.
Full Circle: so - if you read on a little past the "in the beginning" part, you'll eventually find man told he must toil for his bread with the sweat of his brow
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Well the interesting thing is that Microsoft ended up making far more from licensing techno!ogy to Android (making $7 per device) than from Vista itself and with the licensing there is no overhead of devs team, managers, QA etc.
I think the salient point is: the OS business is full of pain support and toil.
Microsoft Takes Six Billion Dollars From Android[^]
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As a lot of people contended and some proved control of the OS allowed Microsoft to give their applications extra features that competitors did not have.
Other than that as others have said they were making money and a lot of it.
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Unsure how to attach the joke icon when I post from Chrome on Android, but...
DOS is primarily an interpreter for MS BASIC, just as Windows is merely an interpreter for Visual Basic and now C# .
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The casting is a bit strange: Patrick Stewart (Star Trek captain) as Poop 
Seems more like an episode of 'Tales of the unexpected' to me ...
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Enjoy the trailer[^]. With Captain Picard at the end 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Consider the audience it is directed at; my 11 year old daughter is waiting, not so patiently, so see it. My 20 year old niece.. not so much.
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And there's the problem: the kid wants to see it, so the parents have to as well...
Or did you get to miss Frozen?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What you got against carp? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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and Sir Patrick Stewart voices a living turd
It's sad to see Patrick Stewart stoop so low. 
Marc
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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But, did he do a crappy job?
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So it's exactly what any sane person expected when they heard the words "Emoji" and "Movie" put together.
I'm not sure that it's any more shallow than our own generational children's fare. The only people that should be annoyed are the guys that support GitHub - emojicode/emojicode, but I don't really care about them because they support emojicode.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Hey man guess what... PHP 7 now offers strict type checking. Put this at the top your files kinda like Option Explicit in VB...
declare(strict_types=1); Yeah I know, only 20 years too late right?
More Info[^]
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Yeah I know, only 20 years too late right?
And with any luck, another 20 years will go by where I don't have to learn this "language."
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Jeremy Falcon
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