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by mariusmg 2819 days ago
Does anyone remember Rotor ? That thing (codeveloped with Corel) was pretty interesting. Too bad about the look but don't touch license model.
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Yes...and I also had Ted Neward's book "Shared Source CLI Essentials" to go along with it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shared-Source-Essentials-David-Stut...

The problem with Rotor was that they ripped out of all the good bits and replaced with not so good things, for example they replaced the garbage collector with a naive implementation.

That said I still learned quite a lot from studying and playing around with it way back then.

I've also read that book, it was excellent!