The Evolution of the Programming Model
The nature of CLR contracts naturally lends itself to a programming model that is independent of task or programming language. The programming model implied by the CLR is a refinement of the COM programming model and is very type-centric because every entity your program can deal with is affiliated with a type. This applies to objects, values, strings, primitives, and arrays. The type-centricity of the programming model is a necessity because one of the key services provided by the CLR is that code can be verifiably type-safe. This prevents malicious code from hijacking an object reference and invoking methods that are not part of the object's contract.
Although developers can recompile existing C++ programs ...
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