[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a wonder all new languages don't target the JVM then.
The JVM is harder to target than the CLR. The JVM was designed to run Java, while the CLR was designed to run most anything imperative and apparently some fairly dynamic and functional stuff too. For example, I suspect you'd have a fairly hard time implementing stuff like FORTRAN's common blocks in the JVM, while (as far as I can understand reading the books) it's built into the CLR. You'd have a rough time doing COBOL in the JVM also, while the CLR has the data types you need for that too. It looks like even Ada has been ported to .NET.
And you don't get to complain that .NET is Windows-only, since you're talking about using the runtime (which already works fine open-source) rather than specific libraries you need to interface to the OS. :-)
-- Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
