From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,50601885924edfd3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-03 01:11:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e4d3b8.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail From: Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft .Net, Ada should be at the head of this list Date: 3 Jun 2002 08:11:57 GMT Organization: People's Front of Judea Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e4d3b8.dip.t-dialin.net (217.228.211.184) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1023091917 33557719 217.228.211.184 (16 [124666]) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (FreeBSD) Cache-Post-Path: gargamel.hqd-internal!unknown@gargamel.hqd-internal X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25244 Date: 2002-06-03T08:11:57+00:00 List-Id: Antonio Duran wrote in comp.lang.ada: > Gerhard H�ring 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 -- mail: gerhard bigfoot de registered Linux user #64239 web: http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/ OpenPGP public key id 86AB43C0 public key fingerprint: DEC1 1D02 5743 1159 CD20 A4B6 7B22 6575 86AB 43C0 reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))