From: "Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-10-03T22:59:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22001] Re: Let's work on Windows support



"Furio R. Filoseta (tlf.)" wrote:
> 
> .NET Is in Beta right now, and will be for a little while. But this is
> the .NET environment, the CLR is as fixed as C#, as it has been proponed
> as a Standard.
> 
> I don't know how long would it take to write a Ruby version that runs on
> the .NET VM, but my guess is that both it and Visual Studio .NET could
> be ready at about the same time.

Who do you propose to write the Linux version of .NET?
Will it be ready at the same time?

> 
> Why wait until Activestate does it ? Alter all, I've read some bad stuff
> about them right here. Stuff that I hadn't have the chance to confirm,
> by the way.

After all, I've read some bad stuff about MS.  Stuff that I have
had the chance to confirm, by the way.

> 
> The more I think about this, the more it makes sense to me.

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