On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Andrew Kennedy wrote:
> I agree that this construct is a touch under-specified; I've emailed
> the C# team with your criticism so hopefully it will get fixed. However,
> it seems a little harsh to conclude that the .NET runtime is to be avoided
> as a target.
That was no conclusion but a question. If .NET is specified more
carefully than C#, it should be possible to port the runtime env. to other
platforms. One additional question is how .NET interacts with the
remainder of ths system (file system etc.); it's clear that Microsoft is
not interested in implementing any platform independent. However, if I
understand what I've read already, neither C# nor the .NET runtime
environment mentions any requirements to system libraries (as MFC for
example).
I've no idea about how much system dependend code has to be written to
- implement .NET on other platforms (i.e. several unices)
- implement .NET backends for Haskell and/or ML compilers
at least for basic functionality (file system access, sockets) there
should be not too much problems.
Regards,
Kili
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