"We were told the engineer could not reboot the computer. Now, I did not get confirmation that the train ran on Windows but it is telling that that would be anyone's first assumption. And products like this locomotive control system do run on Windows."
And that's evidence enough to make a top 10 list?!?
Good thing you this guy isn't a judge.
"Some people heard a summary of your arrest on the evening news and assumed you were guilty, so that's good enough for me. GUILTY!"
He didn't really. He's not talking about multiple (well defined) languages compiling to a common intermediate language, he's talking about a "language" that would drive a parser-writer insane..NET is nice because you can choose the language you prefer to write in and still use the same framework class library, but the languages have to be well-defined in order for the code to parse properly. This open-ended approach would be a parsing nightmare.
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"We were told the engineer could not reboot the computer. Now, I did not get confirmation that the train ran on Windows but it is telling that that would be anyone's first assumption. And products like this locomotive control system do run on Windows." And that's evidence enough to make a top 10 list?!? Good thing you this guy isn't a judge. "Some people heard a summary of your arrest on the evening news and assumed you were guilty, so that's good enough for me. GUILTY!"
He didn't really. He's not talking about multiple (well defined) languages compiling to a common intermediate language, he's talking about a "language" that would drive a parser-writer insane. .NET is nice because you can choose the language you prefer to write in and still use the same framework class library, but the languages have to be well-defined in order for the code to parse properly. This open-ended approach would be a parsing nightmare.
-Lagamorph