Hi Don, Thats very exciting to hear, one of the languages I have been looking at porting to the CLR/CLI is Prolog. I really want to explore porting logic and functional lanaguages to the CLR/CLI and this kind of work is really going to help. I look forward to further announcements.
Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Don Syme To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25/04/02 19:18 Subject: RE: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Changes to Rotor Hi Andrew, I'm pleased to be able to say that we've just arranged to have someone work on the job of making the generics functionality accessible in Rotor. The person will be starting in a couple of weeks, and we aim to have something available within a few months from then. Naturally we will be keeping the Rotor community up-to-date as things progress. So stay tuned! When we have something available we would be very interested in getting feedback on the design and in starting cooperative projects to look at extensions and/or performance improvements. As for ILX, that is, in a sense, already available for Rotor, because it is a translation layer that works outside the runtime infrastructure. I have developed a sample compiler (essentially for the Caml programming language) which targets ILX and which will be released in a week or so for both Rotor and the .NET Framework SDK runtimes. The compiler can also produce code for generics in Rotor once that becomes available. See the information about F# at http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx for more details. Best wishes & thanks for you interest, Don -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Stopford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Changes to Rotor Hi, I have been looking at some the work that is being carried out my MS research http://research.microsoft.com/~dsyme/papers/babel01.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/~dsyme/papers/generics.pdf The research is aimed at adding features to extend C# and the CLR to support Logical languages. I am curious though, we will have to wait to see these in the .NET CLR/CLI or will we see them in Rotor first ? -- Andrew Stopford Web Programmer dabs.com plc
