On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:21:11PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > I'll bet this is all about Mono. There are almost certainly some things > in C# that you cannot implement without stomping on Microsoft patents.
Good point! I was wondering why Novel was worried about patents. Then you reminded me of Mono. Does this deal mean Mono has no worries now? > People warned the Mono guys about this. I never did understand why they > thought C# was so much better than Java to warrant reimplementing it > from scratch. I think the CLR is more suited to other languages then the JVM. I don't know enough about innards of either to know if that holds water. I did talk to Jim (Jython implementer) at PYCON and he was very impressed with CLR FWIW. Personally I don't find either language very exciting. Seems to me a dynamically typed language is a better idea at this level. Sure, write all your system code in C but write all your VM code in a dynamic language to save developer time. Parrot is yet another VM that optimizes for dynamically typed languages. I'd love to see that succeed instead. I'm still waiting to actually see these mythical .NET apps that combine libraries from 5+ languages seemlessly. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
