Are there formal semantics for either C# or common runtime?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Kilian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:32 AM
> To: Andrew Kennedy
> Cc: Erik Meijer; Ketil Malde; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Usability of M$ specs [was: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime]
>
>
> 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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