On 23/08/2010 05:51, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Tristan Zajonc<trist...@gmail.com> wrote:
The popularity of the JVM and the CLR suggest not everybody agrees with your
assessment.
A lot of the 'popularity' comes from people who shouldn't be making
the choice. I work for a company where the management think dot net
will end poverty, fix global warming and bring world peace while
ensuring they grab more of the market than our competition.
Every thing has to be dot net to these people, none of whom know what
a VM is. It has to be dot net because microsoft sales people tell
them so.
Well, if languages based on VMs that compile to an intermediate
representation first and then interpret bytecode are *bad* then that
sends CPython out of the window too...
Of course both .NET and the JVM have kick-ass JIT compilers, so maybe it
is having a JIT compiler that is bad? That makes CPython good but PyPy
and Unladen Swallow bad (along with IronPython and Jython of course). Hmm...
The cross-platform story for .NET is not brilliant, with Mono constantly
playing catch-up and only just switching away from a leaks-like-hell
garbage collector. Other than that the "technical arguments" that have
been presented against .NET in this thread are poor.
All the best,
Michael Foord
Fortunately I can use Ironpython because it has the dot net magic.
Unfortunately I cant use cpython because it's just not magic.
I agree with Vernon, a VM that basically (I know about mono, but it's
always going to be playing catch up) only runs on Windows is a stupid
idea. But as long as people who don't know what they are talking
about are running the show thats how it will be.
--
Rob
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