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Can anyone provide a short, non-marketing-bullshit description of what this steaming pile of shit really is?  Is there ANY reason that a competent developer would ever use it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework

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But it's true. It's not like you can't have other languages under the JVM either: Closure, ABCL, Bigloo, Ocaml-Java, etc show this ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages ).

I do consider .NET more comfortable than the JVM, but they're still pretty similar.