I agree about the influence part. I really hope Fan (and any language designer) looks at a lot of the languages out there for ideas.
If the CLR ran on *nix I'd care about it.... but it doesn't. On Dec 23, 2:55 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 23, 2:32 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > However, I really have to question the decision to support the .net > > runtime. I'm sure some shops want it, but most don't. > > It will fragment the community. You will have .net specific fan > > libraries that wrap up .net libraries as well as fan wrappers around > > java specific libs. I personally would rather see the energy spent in > > advancing the language and building frameworks with it. > > That's a common mentality among the Java crowd - for some reason > interoperability is not seen as particular important (look at the > hoops you have to go through to do anything beyond what the platform > provides). I don't necessarily see a problem with both aiming for > platform interoperability and advancing the language. In fact, Fan is > interesting to me exactly because it's influenced by a broad spectrum > and the role is could play as a facilitator. > > /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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
