[Mono-dev] [Mono-devel-list] Operating System in C# Project

[Johann MacDonagh]

Levi Bard wrote:
> 
>> Meaning, what language or runtime environment would my
>> operating system consider first-class. I could choose C/C++, but that
>> locks
>> people into a language. Instead, I could choose IL, which can be
>> generated
>> by any number of languages.
> 
> This one's a pretty empty point.  You wouldn't actually be choosing C,
> you'd be choosing a binary format (e.g. ELF), to which code in many
> languages can be compiled.
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Correct. And I'll admit I don't have enough experience in low level binary
executable formats, but doesn't C compile it's functions (entry points) in a
certain manner that other languages might not share? For example, I know
that C likes to push its function arguments right to left, whereas Pascal
pushes them left to right. I'm not sure if this would create a problem in
the end.

Again, it is a pretty empty point. Perhaps my statement you quoted was
simply a side-effect of my interest in an all-managed operating system.
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