From: "Karl M. Syring" <syring@...>
Date: 2001-12-31T19:01:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29833] Re: Python and Ruby: a comparison

"Edward Diener" <eldiener@earthlink.net> schrieb
> CLR is a lowest common denominator for language ideas which MS supports.
> What happens when a language has good ideas which are more advanced than
> what CLR supports. It is left out of CLR, or included into it with those
> ideas stripped from the language to accomodate CLR. Sometimes the Holy
> Grail of language interoperability has serious flaws to it.
<snip>

Well, they are fully aware of the the limitations and there is work on an
improved IL (http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/444964.html).

Karl M. Syring