{"id":412,"date":"2007-11-23T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T11:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2007-11-23T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T11:51:20","slug":"net-history-smack-as-well-as-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/412-net-history-smack-as-well-as-cool.html","title":{"rendered":".NET history: Smack as well as Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Jason Zander <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jasonz\/archive\/2007\/11\/23\/couple-of-historical-facts.aspx\">comments<\/a> on my piece on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=381\">early history of ASP.NET<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The CLR was actually built out of the COM+ team as an incubation starting in late 1996.&nbsp; At first we called it the &#8220;Component Object Runtime&#8221; or COR.&nbsp; That&#8217;s why several of the unmanaged DLL methods and environment variables in the CLR start with the Cor prefix.\n<li>There were several language projects underway at the start.&nbsp; The C++ and languages teams both had ideas (Cool was one of them), and in the CLR we wrote Simple Managed C or SMC (pronounced &#8216;smack&#8217;).&nbsp; We actually wrote the original BCL in SMC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He says these are corrections though they seem more like supplementary information to me. I don&#8217;t have any inside knowledge of this history other than what people who should know say to me (though I do also have my own recollections of what was said publicly). He may be reacting to the idea that the CLR came out of the VB team, which Mark Anders kind-of implied.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons I love blogging is that multiple authors can have a crack at getting the facts right. A great personal example is when I asked the question <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?postid=22\">Who invented the wizard<\/a>; and a good candidate came forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?postid=171\">over a year later<\/a>. If you see something inaccurate or misleadingly incomplete on this site, please do comment or let me know by email.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6577fedb-03e8-4c85-bf49-a50b20d2d6c6\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/.net\" rel=\"tag\">.net<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/com\" rel=\"tag\">com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/clr\" rel=\"tag\">clr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Jason Zander comments on my piece on the early history of ASP.NET: The CLR was actually built out of the COM+ team as an incubation starting in late 1996.&nbsp; At first we called it the &#8220;Component Object Runtime&#8221; or COR.&nbsp; That&#8217;s why several of the unmanaged DLL methods and environment variables in the CLR &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/412-net-history-smack-as-well-as-cool.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">.NET history: Smack as well as Cool<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,55,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-microsoft","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}