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Overheard: Microsoft Cosmos

Margaret Rouse — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:44:33 +0000

Unlike most OSes, Cosmos doesn’t run on the bare metal of machines. Rather, it’s a virtualized OS that runs within the .NET container, intended to support .NET-based languages (particularly C#) that are also resident on the .NET container.

Joe McKendrick, A New OS is Born

Channel 8 has step-by-step directions for downloading and making Cosmos work on your PC.

Overheard: The multiple implementations of Python

Margaret Rouse — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:02:24 +0000

First a little background to help explain some of the terms, etc. “Python” is a language, similar to how “Java” is a language; unlike Java wherein the language is also relatively synonymous with the actual implementation of that language, Python has multiple implementations. If you’ve run python(1) from the command line, you’re most likely running the CPython implementation of the Python language, in effect, Python implemented in C. Other implementations of Python exist, like Jython (implemented on top of the Java virtual machine), PyPy (Python implemented in Python), and IronPython (Python implemented on top of the .NET CLR).

R. Tyler Ballance, Comparing IronPython and CPython

Overheard: LINQ is like object-oriented programming

Margaret Rouse — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:18:14 +0000

LINQ is an object-oriented revolution for data, because it, like object-oriented programming, allows programmers to write code that is more like the way people think.

Patrick Hynds, as quoted in Does .NET With LINQ Beat Java?