Re: Microsoft .Net, Ada should be at the head of this list

["Gerhard Häring" <gerhard@bigfoot.de>]

Antonio Duran wrote in comp.lang.ada:
> Gerhard Hï¿œring <gerhard@bigfoot.de> wrote:
>> Or start a Sourceforge project named gnatdotnet and hope that
>> skilled compiler developers will join and do all the work for you
>> ;-)
> Maybe starting a Sourceforge project is not aligned with the
> official Microsoft policy. I guess Sourceforge does not support
> Shared Source licenses yet :-)

I have no idea what a GNAT for .NET compiler would have to do with
Microsoft policy. It only must be able to read certain library files
("assemblies", IIRC) and produce MSIL code.

There are efforts to create open-source compilers targeting the .NET
platform (even cloning the .NET framework). Check out the Mono project
if you're interested. I am not ;-)

In my very limited experience, I find C# a relatively nice language.
Relative to what Microsoft offered before, that is. I think I like it
better than Java, but that's easy, because I particularly hate the
typecasting orgies that Java forces upon me.

Gerhard
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