[Mono-list] support for other languages

Guenther Roith groith@tcrz.net
Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:30:45 +0200


> I am not sure that building compilers makes a lot of sense though, it
> requires a very large time investment, and the benefits are smaller.
>
> My suggestion is: wrap existing apis, design new APIs in Mono-land.
>

You're right. The only "problem" is we would have only few languages for
writing
il code: c#, (vb.net perhaps) and things like oberon and object pascal.

But I think there will be some people to write compilers for .net, perhaps
open source.
And mono might be able to use them. :-)

Johannes