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>>C# is 1 of 20 languages supported by, among other things, the MSIL.
>>I'll admit to some curiosity as to how many languages are
>>supported by Java bytecode -- Java of course being one of them.

http://grunge.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguages.html

> But on the gripping hand, targeting other language compilers
> also to Java bytecode would be a tremendous portability boost
> for those other languages, and give them ready access to the
> massive Java libraries and open source movement.  I'd love to
> see a Fortran 95 to Java bytecode compiler, e.g.

See above.