Re: OT: Common Language Runtime for BSD/Unix/Linux/OS X/etc

[David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 03:29:13PM +1000, David Crawshaw wrote:
> Sorry for posting this here, but I have no idea where else to go.
> 
> I have been learning about Microsoft's so called Java Killer, C#. C# is a
> language that gets compiled into what is known as IL code, and the IL code
> is run in the Common Language Runtime (CLR). There has been a lot of talk of
> the fact that Microsoft released C# (a really really nice language, I love
> it) and the CLR royalty free. Anyone is allowed to produce a version.

I realize that they like to tell you how innovative they are, but this is 
just the same as Java source being compiled to Java bytecode to run on a 
JVM, only tied to Windows.  Plenty of languages compile to JVM already
(over 100 at last count, including python and perl).  Why reinvent the
wheel again?

In any event this belongs on advocacy@, so please direct all followups there.

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