> So why exactly is there not a C# compiler for the JVM already (maybe > using mono classes for the framework)?? -or is there ?? (there is > mainsoft but that is msil to java bytecode)
That is a darn good question and it's perhaps the greatest evidence to the fact that the Java community prefers to imagine C# doesn't exist (apart from a few mavericks like Ted Neward and Sarah Pa.. no strike that). You can run all kind of weird languages on top of the JVM, but not C# which for all intents and purposes is Java.next. The mindset also shines through in this podcast, while the posse guys are of course free to interview whom they want, it's sad (and in stark contrast to i.e. .NET rocks) how they never once crossed over to the other side to assert how green the grass is or isn't there - as if nothing good could come out of it. The merge of the JVM and the CLR has been proposed in the past, it might happen with the Mono VM eventuall (which will quite happily run Java code and whos designers plan to take full advantage of interesting OpenJDK bits) and that's also why platform-hybrid languages such as Fan is an interesting thing to follow. /Casper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
