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I've been writing C / C++ code for almost twenty years, and I know Perl, Python, PHP, and some Java as well, and I'm teaching myself JavaScript. But I've never done any .NET, VB, or C# stuff. What exactly does managed code mean? Wikipedia describes it simply as Code that executes under the management of a virtual machine and it specifically says that Java is (usually) managed code, so why does the term only seem to apply to C# / .NET? Can you compile C# into a .exe that contains the VM as well, or do you have to package it up and give it to another .exe (a la java)? In a similar vein, is .NET a language or a framework , and what exactly does "framework" mean here? OK, so that's more than one question, but for someone who's been in the industry as long as I have, I'm feeling rather N00B-ish right now...
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