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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by chgs on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @09:04PM (#41386186)
Visual J++ was Microsoft’s Java
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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by toyg on Thursday August 29, 2024 @07:09AM (#41389542)
They were legally forbidden from going the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish route there, so they had to build their own version from scratch. C# exists because J++ couldn't.
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