[Mono-list] Platforms Mono will support?

Bob Smith bob@thestuff.net
Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:18:49 -0400 (EDT)


VB.NET uses a few additional classes that are not in the System Namespace.
They will need to be implemented before the VB.NET programs that use them
will run properly.

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Stephen Homer wrote:

> I'm a little confused here, what exactly does a VB.NET runtime need to
> support, all the documentation I've seen for the common runtime seems to
> say that c# and vb.net are compiled to IL which is indistinguishable and
> that both languages are using exactly the same class libraries.
>
> What did I miss?
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com] On
> Behalf Of G.Kumaraguru
> Sent: 14 September 2002 21:27
> To: mono-list@ximian.com
> Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Platforms Mono will support?
>
>
>  As a VB6 Developer myself, I find VB.NET simply not interesting than
> learning C#.
>  It would be worthwhile to concentrate on efforts to run mono on
> different architecture than implementing VB.NET.
>
>  Also, Microsoft might find issues with mono having a VB.NET compiler as
> it is still their proprietary language(Not an ECMA standard unlike C#
> and ECMA script.)
>
>  It would be a huge risk. Microsoft can change the VB.NET language
> syntax any time they want. You would have to catch up with it if you
> want it to be usable.
>
>  Developing a CLI-Compliant language that's based on Basic is a
> different thing than to create an exact copy of VB.NET.
>
>  In any case what attracts people to VB.NET is the RAD GUI Designer. If
> we have one such thing for mono C#, the problem is solved.
>
>
>  Regards
>  Kumaraguru
>
>
>
>
>
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