Mono and Dot Net Frame Work

[Bob Hemus]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 08:52 -0500, Ben Duncan wrote:
> In the beginning was serial. And serial communicated simply and elegantly
> using easily understood escape sequences. And there was one MASTER COMPUTER,
> and it was called by it's HOLY NAME(S), "UNIX" or "MAINFRAME.
> And the habitants of this garden were in bliss.
> 
> Then, lo, the snake was released into the garden. And they calluth
> him the "BILL". And the BILL broughuth the evil PC. But the inhabitants
> of the garden tamed the PC with a law called "THE TERMINAL EMULATOR".
> But another creature sneaked into the garden, and low it's NAME was
> called "NOVELL". And the PCs began to communicate on usurping the
> HOLY UNIX or MAINFRAME.
> 
> And the "BILL" saw the almighty significant of the the almighty DOLLAR
> and decreed, that low, NOVELL, was wrong and thus he unleashed his wrath
> called WINDOWS for PC upon the Garden, to upsurge the HOLY UNIX or MAINFRAME and
> squash the creature called NOVELL.
> 
> And the inhabitants of the garden bit of the APPLE and GUI and become
> addicts to ICONS and SOLITAIRE.
> 
> But the UNIX and the MAINFRAME's power were to strong for the BILL, so
> low he fostered Client/Server upon the inhabitants to circumvent the
> law of TERMINAL EMULATION. But the CLient/Server used the resources
> of the garden, in a tremendous way, requiring that the Client/Server
> be hosted on the HOLY UNIX or MAINFRAME as well as the PC(now called
> by it's evil name, WINDOWS). And low, the inhabitants were rushing to and
> fro, installing, reinstalling and rebooting, to keep the WINDOWS in
> sync with the HOLY UNIX (now called by *NIX) and MAINFRAME.
> 
> And at this time, another creature creeped into the garden, and it's
> name was "THE INTERNET". An man called " THE GORE" decreed he had brought
> it. And LOW, the internet ate of the APPLE and the GUI and become
> the BROWSER, and instead of becoming evil, the APPLE and the GUI
> made the BROWSER a friend to the inhabitants of the garden. And the
> law of the TERMINAL EMULATION was nearing an end. And some decreed,
> perhaps it was near the end for the WINDOWS, as well.
> 
> And "THE BILL" became mightily angry, and fostered upon the inhabitants,
> such terrible plagues of COM+, OLE, DDE, and upon the inhabitants did
> rain, 98, and 2000 and XP and the greatest plague of all, "ME".
> 
> And thus the inhabitants became lost in a world of SOAP and DCOM, and
> the heavy load of communication protocol and they cried out in despair!
> 
> Yet against such fierce and vengeful acts, did the INTERNET survive,
> because it had learned to work in peace and harmony with the
> HOLY *NIX and MAINFRAME and thus they spoke, in the languages of
> peace called TCP/IP and HTML. And INTERNET heard the inhabitants cries
> and brought down from the mountains of HIGHER LEARNING and EDUCATION
> and the DOD, the language's of peace to the inhabitants.
> 
> But the "BILL", being angry at one of the HOLY *NIX, called "SUN",
> and it's HOLY word called JAVA, and since he could not control the
> languages of peace - TCP/IP and HTML, and now that the "BILL" and his
> abomination child called "INTERNET EXPLORER", could not longer
> rule the inhabitants of the garden, retreated into a cave for a short
> time.
> 
> And there in that cave, the "BILL" found the OLD scroll of the law
> of "TERMINAL EMULATION". And the "BILL" had a profound idea. For low,
> what if the simple idea of escape sequences could be transcribed in the
> language of peace called XML, and the Cleint/Server could be used
> for display of the GUI, thus he could create his own HOLY
> "WINDOW SERVER" and create a new law and called it "ASP" - for
> Application Server Provider. And the BILL decreed to addict inhabitants
> so that the BILL would never again be without the ALMIGHTY dollar,
> and thus he called this abomination "The Dot Net" .....
> 
> Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> > Ben Duncan wrote:
> > 
> >>I have some contract work to fulfill. It involves the DOt Net
> >>stuff.
> > 
> > 
> > What does Dot Net do actually? I am really curious...
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Ben Duncan   - Business Network Solutions, Inc. 336 Elton Road  Jackson MS, 39212
> "Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
>         - Hanlon's Razor
> 
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Bob