[Mono-list] Comparing .NET CLI implementations

[Brad Wilson]

Toby DiPasquale wrote:

> .NET is Microsoft's new development platform, in answer to Java, that will
> allow multiple languages to compile to the same bytecode, thus, allowing
> execution and integration of a mixed-code environment.

As someone who has spent a lot of time in the Microsoft world, this sounds
like the answer of a Java person. ;) J++ and J# are Microsoft's answers to
Java. The .NET framework is the next evolution in COM(+), as promised so
many years ago (was that the 1997 PDC when they were talking about the next
version of COM that would integrate garbage collection?). Many of the things
that were promised and delivered in COM+ were significantly enhanced in .NET
(multi-language support, attributed programming, etc.).

It minimizes the major leaps .NET has made over Java to say is just an
"answer" to it, IMO. Clearly the non-Windows crowd recognizes this value,
because we have Mono and .GNU. :)

Brad

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