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

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@campus.iztacala.unam.mx>]

> 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.
>
> My question is, has anyone started a project to build a CLR for
> Unix/BSD/Linux? I'd love to see this, as for once, there would be one truly
> utopian programming language where we could write the simpler programs, and
> they work everywhere. You wouldn't even have to recompile to move a program
> between OS X, Windows, and OpenBSD.
>(...)

I see it as something that will become as slow and self-incompatible as
Java. It is no Java killer, it is just a Java substitute. It brings no
major new features over Java. I do not find a justification for its
existence.

Why not code in a platform-indepentent, already existing language, such as
plain ANSI C, Perl, or whatever you fancy? It works, it exists, it does
not depend on MS.

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           Gunnar Wolf    gwolf@campus.iztacala.unam.mx
     Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Iztacala
   Jefatura de Sección de Desarrollo y Admon. de Sistemas en Red
       Departamento de Seguridad en Computo - DGSCA - UNAM
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