Re: Is Microsoft de-emphasizing C# ?

[xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan)]

The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.athghost7038suus.net> wrote:

[about C# not being the only language of .NET]

> 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.

Well, at least Ada compiles into Java bytecode as well, in at
least one commercial compiler.

Which raises an interesting point; why not Pascal, which used to
compile to a bytecode in one version (UCSD Pascal); surely a
port to translate to Java bytecode instead should be fairly
straightforward?

> However, there's a flip side: Java bytecode may support only one
> language, but that could mean it supports it very well. :-)

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.

xanthian.