Re: is dotnet a - Virtual Machine - like Java ?

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From: Niki Estner (niki.estner_at_cube.net)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:48:24 +0200

"Andy Fish" <ajfish@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in
news:UMTyc.3035$tp1.27099353@news-text.cableinet.net...
> ...
> As for the thing about the ability of the platforms to support different
> languages, I don't really see that it's a big deal. all the "different"
.net
> languages are just different syntax for expressing the same thing. maybe
we
> will someday get different programming paradigms for these VMs in which
case
> there will be a real choice of language to suit the application, but at
the
> moment choosing the .net language is just like choosing the color of your
> car.

Ever heard of Perl, Hugs.net, Fortran.net, Eiffel or maybe managed C++?
Of course all these languages are "eqivalent" in the sense that they are all
turing-complete, but it's certainly more than "choosing the color of your
car" - more like choosing between a car, a ship or a bicycle...

Have a look at:
http://www.activestate.com/Products/PerlASPX
http://www.eiffel.com/
http://www.lahey.com/
http://galois.com/~sof/hugs98.net/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/TSG/SMLNET/
(found using google in 5 minutes...)

The last two are probably not intended for real-world use as they are
research projects, but that's probably true for most functional languages.

Niki

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