Chapter 2. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Developer Platform
By Matthew Lyons
IN THIS CHAPTER
Over time, new technologies and new paradigms sweep through the computer industry. From mainframes to minicomputers to PCs to embedded computers, hardware has gotten smaller, faster, and less expensive. This has put an amazing amount of computing power at our fingertips.
While hardware has changed quite dramatically, software has undergone fewer changes, though the changes are still significant. Programming has moved from assembly-level languages to high-level languages. Reinventing ...
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