Re: C Sharp?

2000-10-19 Thread John Porter

David Grove wrote:
 Isn't C# (C Sharp) a Microsoft-owned language that is (currently) available 
 only on Win2k (though apparently targeted for crossplatform)? After Larry said 
 he was thinking of making parts of Perl 6 in C#, I went on a studying rampage. 
 I find nothing for anything except Win2k. Can someone provide links to 
 compilers or resources for non-Win32/Win2k C#?

I have heard (via a presumably reliable source) that MicroS..t has 
contracted Corel to port C# to linux.

-- 
John Porter




C Sharp?

2000-10-18 Thread David Grove

Isn't C# (C Sharp) a Microsoft-owned language that is (currently) available 
only on Win2k (though apparently targeted for crossplatform)? After Larry said 
he was thinking of making parts of Perl 6 in C#, I went on a studying rampage. 
I find nothing for anything except Win2k. Can someone provide links to 
compilers or resources for non-Win32/Win2k C#?

FWIW, although I hate Java with a passion, something about C# seems to be 
getting me... umm... aroused...

(And I swore I'd never use another Microsoft Development Tool.)





Re: C Sharp?

2000-10-18 Thread Dan Sugalski

At 10:30 PM 10/18/00 -0500, David Grove wrote:
Isn't C# (C Sharp) a Microsoft-owned language that is (currently) available
only on Win2k (though apparently targeted for crossplatform)? After Larry 
said
he was thinking of making parts of Perl 6 in C#,

Perl's not going to be written in C#. What it's probably going to do (or at 
least have the potential to do) is emit C# code the same way it'll be able 
to emit Java bytecode.

Dan

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