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user-inactivated · 3126 days ago · link · · parent · post: Did the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit of 2000 accomplish anything?
This adds a layer to my understanding of reality. Something so ubiquitous and underlying a lot coming out of two big guys brawling over who will screw the other up harder, better, faster, stronger. But wait: you say "languages", plural? What are the other ones?
Well, ASP, .NET, and C# are all attempts to do the same thing, just generations apart. And they are all built upon the same wrong-headed Microsoft thinking: "Lock 'em into our platform and they'll never escape!" It's totally immaterial nowadays. But there is some history there, and us grumpy old men still hold grudges against perfectly capable languages (C#) because of the fires they were forged in.