Miguel de Icaza -- who founded the Gnome desktop project used in GNU/Linux systems -- prompted a certain amount of discussion last week by praising Microsoft's .Net software development architecture (below). This "required an explanation", in the sense that it was easier to ask Icaza to explain himself than make the effort to find out how .Net actually works. And he gave one, here. However, it will be some time before .Net ceases to provide a quick way to identify ("It's from Microsoft so it must be bad") fools.
Actually, the best thing in Icaza's response, and by far the best thing in this item, is a link to an article I'd missed: The significance of .NET by Bertrand Meyer, professor of software engineering and inventor or the Eiffel language. Although it only covers a small part of the .Net system, that part is the heart.
