From: "Erik Bågfors" Date: 2002-02-14T23:50:54+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and .NET On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 15:37, Peter Hickman wrote: > 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. That's funny considering that mono is working with the published specs and seams to be doing a really good job. large part (not everything) of .NET is submitted as standard which is more than sun has done. /Erik - standards are good, everyone should have one. -- Erik B�gfors | erik@bagfors.nu Supporter of free software | GSM +46 733 279 273 fingerprint: 6666 A85B 95D3 D26B 296B 6C60 4F32 2C0B 693D 6E32