[Biodevelopers] bioinformatics and .NET

[Jaroslaw Zola]

: It seems to me that .NET is great for applications but somewhat poor for

I would not say so - .NET simply has strong commercial support that is
all, it is not very good neither for applications nor for libraries - yes
I know I am radical :-)

: libraries because it is tied to Windows.  Why not develop the libraries in
: C++ and the applications that use the libraries in .NET?  You can easily
: expose C++ code to .NET, Java, Perl, etc.  Also, C++ will run faster than
: .NET because it is unmanaged.

When I thought about starting Bio C++ I had in mind writing bundle of code
which would be more flexible and extensible than pure C code and as
efficient as possible (generic and generative programming can be very
interesting in this point).

Best regards, 

j.zola

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Jaroslaw Zola                   Institute of Computer & Information Sciences
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