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 -- GHUM Harald Massa persuadere et programmare Harald Armin Massa Reinsburgstraße 202b 70197 Stuttgart 0173/9409607 fx 01212-5-13695179 - Python: the only language with more web frameworks than keywords.
