NET is that, with Cocoa + ObjC, Apple has a clean, object-oriented environment that they can use for all applications.
It offers an object-oriented environment for software engineering.
Later you used a Death Valley metaphor to suggest that companies are doomed if they don't move beyond Windows to get to 32-bit, object-oriented environments.
What we need are true object-oriented environments.
This variant was designed for rapid change in the client/server, object-oriented environment of the business-driven 1990s.
This consists of a library of C++ classes providing an object-oriented environment to create applications.
"Hierarchical, modular discrete-event modelling in an object-oriented environment."
It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.
In an object-oriented environment, this is usually at the class level, and the minimal unit tests include the constructors and destructors.
In an object-oriented environment, a framework consists of abstract and concrete classes.