Its not the multi language nature of the CLR that is negative, it the programmers!! How is it that incompetent programmers are the responsibility of the CLR? "I have crappy programmer because the CLR implemented VB!" C'mon Plus, if there was no VB.NET you can bet your ass they'd still be using VB 6 and you'd be COM interoping your way to sadness. Plus.. a Bad VB programmer forced into C# is still a bad programmer.
the Microsoft PR machine does not claim that.NET is cross-platform. Mono is great but why do they exist??? Because M$ submitted the CLI to ECMA and Mono was born from implenting that spec.. so lets give M$ some credit (though im waiting for M$ to sue Novell now for MONO:) ) I agree about a platform being only as good as its Class libraries.
IronPython does run on Mono.
Implementing Python on.NET does not make python MS-only. I'm not sure i understand that. IronPython is compatable with much of the python standard library.. which will get better with time. If you don't need.NET then just use Python2.4+. Whats the beef there?
Personally being able to write/prototype.NET apps in Python is very exiting.
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Its not the multi language nature of the CLR that is negative, it the programmers!! How is it that incompetent programmers are the responsibility of the CLR? "I have crappy programmer because the CLR implemented VB!" C'mon Plus, if there was no VB.NET you can bet your ass they'd still be using VB 6 and you'd be COM interoping your way to sadness. Plus.. a Bad VB programmer forced into C# is still a bad programmer.
the Microsoft PR machine does not claim that .NET is cross-platform. Mono is great but why do they exist??? Because M$ submitted the CLI to ECMA and Mono was born from implenting that spec.. so lets give M$ some credit (though im waiting for M$ to sue Novell now for MONO :) ) I agree about a platform being only as good as its Class libraries.
IronPython does run on Mono. .NET does not make python MS-only. I'm not sure i understand that. IronPython is compatable with much of the python standard library.. which will get better with time. If you don't need .NET then just use Python2.4+. Whats the beef there?
Personally being able to write/prototype .NET apps in Python is very exiting.
Implementing Python on