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                                Polyglut redux

> From: "Jeff Cuscutis" <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> To: "Sean Conner" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Polyglut [1]
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:42:21 -0400
>
> .net does what you're looking for. You use the language you want or
> implement your own, (Ruby, Python, managed C++, C#, VB (Vistual Basic)
> (just kidding!), etc …)—it compiles to an intermediate language, then is
> run as x86 machine instructions. All .net classes/objects are understood by
> any net language. Yes, there is garbage collection, I myself an not
> entirely comfortable with that, but their implementation is supposed to
> pretty good. It is cross platform (Mono) at least for web stuff, winforms
> support is in progress.
>
> Write in what language you want, and know that any other language will be
> able to call your object with no problems.
>
> Pretty cool, even if it is from Microsoft. :)
>
> Jeff
>

Well … when you modify scripting languages to target a common internal
representation (IronPython Python for .net [2] and Ruby for .net [3] for
example) then it comes back to calling conventions and piecing it all
together (heck, you can even get Lisp for .net [4] and COBOL for .net [5] so
you could probably do a mixed language application under .net).

And yes, pretty cool, even if it is from Microsoft.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/04/24.1
[2] http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2005/11/18/1871
[3] http://www.plas.fit.qut.edu.au/rubynet/
[4] http://www.lsharp.org/
[5] http://www.dotnetheaven.com/Articles/ArticleListing.aspx?SectionID=16

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