Re: Ada & .Net (Rotor)

["Juergen Pfeifer" <juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net>]

Generics are an interesting topic wrt the problem whether or not this can be
done on the CLR level.
Is it possible to have a generic written in one language and instantiated in
another language? At
least the both languages must agree on the semantics of genericity. I think
this is a current area of
research inside one of the MS dotnet research teams.

An implementation of Ada on top of the current CLR might be interesting as a
reference for a
language that has a long tradition wrt genericty. Ada could be influential
on .NET if it comes at
the right time. And of course it would be very interesting to see how well
Ada could fit into this
whole cross-language interoperability (cross language object system,
exceptions etc.) story.

My 2c
J�rgen

"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@huji.ac.il> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> It may be interesting to try and make use of the shared source CLI (aka
> Rotor) to provide Ada support on .Net (by porting Gnat, for example). I am
> not going to try to analyze the licensing issues here, but be sure to
check
> them out before you _look_ at the shared source as there are different
> opinions on what the license actually means.
> Anyway, if you are interested in atacking this project, you may be able to
> make use of the Microsoft grants:
> http://research.microsoft.com/programs/europe/rotor/
>
> I am not up to date on this but I think there are some interesting open
> issues that may be interesting from a researhc point of view. I am
thinking
> mainly about support for generics.
>
> Ehud Lamm
>
>