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From: britt@acm.org (Britt Snodgrass)
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Subject: Re: Restrictions on compilers for Microsoft's .NET project
Date: 9 Feb 2002 21:26:02 -0800
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There is a current discussion of the .NET Common Language Runtime
(CLR) on Slashdot at
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/09/1538238&mode=thread&tid=109
based on the interesting article at http://www.javalobby.org/clr.html.
I'm not a compiler person but after reading the article I would guess
that the .NET CLR would present fewer difficulties for an Ada compiler
than the Java JVM does.

Britt

Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<2sk5nInklHl1@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> Page 11 of the March 2002 MSDN magazine from Microsoft announces
> TMT Development Corporation's Pascal compiler for .NET.  It says the
> compiler "can accept programs in standard Pascal (except for some unsafe
> features, such as records with variants, which are allowed if variants
> aren't overlapped)".
> 
> Is lack of variant records a TMT decision or a requirement of .NET ?
> If the latter, it would not bode well for the possibility of a full
> Ada compiler targeting that environment.