Re: One language environment don't have future

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <u3cn27hrt.fsf@nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov> writes:
> spam@not.come writes:
> 
>> The successfull future systems will be like .Net - one development 
>> environment for many call-compatible languages, with single runtime, 
>> single language-neitral set of libraries, single language-neitral 
>> OS interface. 
> 
> Sounds like VMS. Nothing new here.

I was under the impression that .NET, like the Java Bytecode Engine,
constrained what languages are able to do.  I felt this was confirmed
by the release of "A#" rather than "Ada95" for .NET.

In that sense, I would say the .NET environment represents quite
a degradation from what is provided by VMS (and has been for about
25 years).