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That might have been difficult, given that .NET is only 12 years old.

Actually it goes back to 1999 and was a project that involved HP, Microsoft and Intel. The first release was in 2002 and it was public knowledge in 2000.

Oh aren't you so smug.

I was at the 2000 PDC when they announced C#. We are now just shy of 2015. My 15 is more accurate than your 12.

Announcing occurs at vaporware stage. Realeasing is what makes it real. So do your math again.

Do your math again. We were given Tech Preview CDs at the time that contained a preview versions of .NET. So yes, we were able to write and experiment with C# and VB.Net code back then.

I was actively looking for a cross-platform replacement for Perl at the time and while C#/.NET was exciting it was also a huge disappointment because it was yet another "runs on Windows only" Microsoft technology.

I don't see how you can tell me that I am wrong when I was sitting there with the CDs in MY hand 14.5 years ago actively disappointed because .NET was NOT cross platform like Perl and Java.

I'm done arguing this. This is stupid.

Tech Preview CDs or demo is not releasing. It is a totally different thing. But oh well.

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