Re:Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
by manigandham on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:56AM
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Runtimes are different from languages. The C# language has never been rebooted and is fully backwards compatible, and there's no better example of long-term support than Microsoft. You can still run apps from the MSDOS era, and even upgrade MSDOS through to Windows 10 if you have all the CDs today.
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Re:Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
by pjmlp on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:12AM
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Runtimes and languages go hand-in-hand, a runtime that doesn't support everything that one expects from the standard library breaks compatibility.
Code starts getting full of #ifdefs
Siverlight, .NET Core, WinRT, UWP just to give three reboots.
No support for dynamic APIs, appdomains, IL generation on the fly, reflection APIs done in a different way, ...
Actually C# is not fully backwards compatible, variables declared on foreach statements changed their semantics in C# 5.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2009/11/12/clos...
MS-DOS is only supported in 32 bit variants, a species in extinsion.
Re:Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
by int_19h on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:03PM
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> The C# language has never been rebooted and is fully backwards compatible
This is not true - there have been several breaking changes in C#-the-language since 1.0. For example:
Re:Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
by general8bitso on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:17AM
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So, like DOS 3.3 to 5 to 6.2, and Windows 3 to 3.1, to 95 to 98 to 98SE, to ME, to XP, to 7, to 8 to 8.1, to 10?
I think I was using floppies until Win 98?
Re:Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
by manigandham on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:45AM
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Here's a 10 hour video from DOS to Win10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60HHWWo9z4