Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk) wrote,

> Thu, 3 Aug 2000 22:53:45 +0200, Erik Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
> 
> >     http://www.microsoft.com/net/
> 
> I still have not found anything suggesting that tools needed for
> working with that (e.g. the common runtime) will be available for
> non-Windows OSes. Who will make them? Microsoft?

I guess, it will be like COM.  Sure, in theory it could work
on other OSes, but that's not in MS's interest, so why
should they make it happen (or even allow that others make
it happen).

Manuel

PS: I know that there is some obscure port of COM, but I
    never heard that it made any impact.