Tom,
Awhile back I read an article claiming that .NET could only host one
language, or at least only languages that differed merely in trivial
syntactic details --- its execution engine isn't flexible enough for
anything truly interesting.
Jim Hugunin (creator of Jython, which is Python on Java Virtual Machine) thought similiar:
"""wanted to understand how Microsoft could have screwed up so badly that the CLR was a worse platform for dynamic languages than the JVM. My plan was to take a couple of weeks to build a prototype implementation of Python on the CLR and then to use that work to write a short pithy article called, "Why the CLR is a terrible platform for dynamic languages""""
He tried it, wrote Ironpython, was hired by Microsoft...
http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/archive/2006/09/05/741605.aspx So there is proof that .NET is usable for more then one language. (Not that I want to embrace that platform)
Harald
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