[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Jonathan Harker stipulated:
> .NET is basically Microsoft's rip-off of Java, and C# is their rip-off of the 
> Java language. It's based on a similar JIT compiled, garbage-collecting VM 
> (despite what the marketecture might say), with the added advantage that you 
> can compile any language to .NET (given that it adheres to certain 
> guidelines).

This is true of Java, as well. The guidelines are fairly strict, and the
VM is quite a bad fit to languages other than Java, but it's quite doable.

See, e.g., Per Bothner's Kawa project, which is a (self-hosting) Scheme
compiler targeting the JVM.

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