Re: The Oracle/Google lawsuits, and how it affects choice of
language
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Mike Schilling wrote:
"Martin Gregorie" <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:14:54 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Eric Sosman wrote:
On 8/23/2010 2:18 PM, Simon Brooke wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:49:27 -0400, Arne Vajh?j wrote: [...]
And Oracle does not have any obligation to anyone except their
stockholders.
This is true. Are you prepared to bet your career on a language owned
and controlled by a company which, as you say, does not have an
obligation to you?
That's why nobody uses C#.
Or COBOL. Or PL/SQL.
I agree about PL/SQL (SQL suffers badly from bastardisation by various
RDBMS vendors) but not COBOL. The COBOL language specification is now
controlled by the ANSI committee responsible for adopting changes to the
language standard rather than any company as the successor to the CODASYL
committee.
C# is standardized by ECMA, and there are conforming non-Microsoft
implementations of it. What makes C# proprietary is the .NET framework,
the most interesting parts of which are not in the public domain.
The same applies for COBOL: i'd be surprised if there were any significant
COBOL applications built entirely using the portable API, and using no
CICS or other IBM goodies.
tom
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