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Mike Champion wrote, > Competition is good, but stovepipes are not so good. Forks lead to > stovepipes: Java, C/C++, and C# as actually practiced are essentially > three separate environments -- if one chooses to develop a product, > one has to either choose one over the others or invest *significant* > resources in separate code bases, porting tools, or whatever. Thus > innovative tools or implementations of new ideas tend to be available > in only one of the above. There ain't no way (AFAIK) to work in > Microsoft's best-of-breed IDE and use the great open source Java code > out there. I for one consider that a problem. [MS may consider it a > solution, I'm not going there :-) ] I'm not sure I really follow your train of thought here. I guess what you're saying is that stovepipes are the (common? typical?) result of _not_ being able to choose between committing to a single language/ platform or investing resources in multiple languages/platforms. So what's new? People want to have their cake and eat it and end up with complex, uncoordinated, Heath Robinson contraptions built from a grab-bag of more or less individually appropriate components stitched together with ad-hocery and duct tape. The problem (unless you favour monoculture on ideological grounds) isn't diversity ... it's people reacting inappropriate in the face of diversity. I also find it odd that your main explicit gripe seems to be that MS's _IDE_ doesn't get along well with OS Java packages. Yet more proof, IMO, that IDEs are evil, whatever language they're targetted at. Cheers, Miles
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