From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2002-02-14T23:37:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and .NET

Erik B�gfors wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 15:22, Stephan J. Schmidt wrote:
> in the first place.
>
>>I think integrating Ruby into Parrot might be a much better idea, or at
>>least jRuby and jPython should throw some resources together and make it
>>easier for other languages to compile to java bytecode. At least Java is
>>more open then .NET.
>>
>In what sence?
>
>/Erik
>
The Java bytecode has a published spec, .NET bytecode has been largely 
reverse engineered and MS makes no commitment other than to themselves. 
Just like those undocumented API issues that used to plague Windows 
developers.