Days after presenting Longhorn to its own developers, Microsoft stressed the value of managed code to stamp-out worms and other viruses at Borland’s event.
Managed code helps prevent buffer overruns, a common security fault exploited by hackers attempting to crash operating systems like Windows XP with malicious code.
Borland’s developers are arguably the most influential community of Windows programmers outside of Microsoft’s own. Borland tools rank second to Microsoft’s own in terms of market share for Windows.
Borland used its conference to announce Delphi 8.0 for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Delphi 8.0 can now compile to Microsoft’s intermediate language and execute via the Common Language Runtime (CLR).
Delphi 8.0 joins languages F Sharp, Mixal, Pizza, P Sharp, Ruby and Zannon, which all now work on the CLR.
Microsoft claims more than 30 languages run on the CLR, including its own such as Visual Basic.NET, C++.NET and C Sharp.NET.
This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.
