[Mono-list] When someone asks about java...

[Tyson Dowd]

On 14-Jul-2001, Tom <tom7ca@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > [lots of things that are nice about the CLR]
> 
> I agree: the CLR has some nice features that the
> JVM doesn't have.  And I think that's also true
> for C# vs. Java.  OTOH, I don't believe any of
> those niceties are of immediate relevance to the
> goal of making Gnome desktop applications easier
> to build (if that is the goal).
> 
> > But if we had
> > a free software implementation of the CLR, we could
> > fix those problems.
> 
> Well, if you start tinkering with the CLR, why
> not start with an existing, working JVM and tinker
> with it?  You could either come up with an "extended
> Java" that's fully backwards compatible, or you could 
> make the JVM support CLR.

Fergus was talking about extending the verifier to handle the cases
where existing bytecodes that *should* be verifiable are not.

Adding new bytecodes (which you are discussing in your reply) is a
different matter.

Tyson.