On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> Has anyone paid more than cursory attention to the recent announcements
> about "OpenSource" alternatives to .Net?
Yes. I've been talking with Miguel and others, and taking a look at
the code behind mono.
> Would Perl 6 stand to benefit from mindshare between these projects?
Yes.
> Or are they just potential targets in the
> same vein as Microsoft's CLI and CLR?
Well, that too. But Microsoft's system is basically going to be harder
to target, because it expects things to look like C#. I hear they've
even upset some VB developers by turning VB.NET into a sort of
Basic-flavoured C#. Mono is going to be rather a lot more aware of
dynamic programming languages.
There's also been some discussion of this on language-dev.
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