[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

[Bernard Peek]

In message <86k7ie4xi3.fsf at void.printf.net>, Chris Ball 
<chris at void.printf.net> writes


>Don't forget that the CLR may support multiple source languages, but is
>only targetted at Windows.  You get all of this support for languages,
>but lose the ability to have supported targetting at Linux, or any kind
>of targetting at MacOS or Solaris.  There are lots of situations in
>which a Java project won't be able to begin to consider moving to .NET..

Microsoft aren't that dumb. You can bet the Linux CLR is ready and 
waiting whenever they need to roll it out. I think we'll see the Solaris 
version first though.



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