<puts on his asbestos suit>
*grin* Glad too see that you get the gist of things... ;-)
I believe there is a pike-like language that runs on the mono JIT with excellent compiler and runtime support. It's called C#.
Why then try to turn a good language that has its niche and users into a half-baked copy of something else?
Well, I see your point. In fact it's painfully clear seen from a single language's perspective. However - if one looks at it from a mor abstract level - there is allways the possibility to share code with other languages written for CIL (I'm not sure if this is at .NET level or not, but I don't think so). That is, the pike code may use code from other projects (C#, VB, whatever) and vice versa.
I belive there are some difficulties in achieving this, but the runtime environment was designed to be able to share code between supported languages.
/ Peter Lundqvist (disjunkt)
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2003-05-20 01:14: Subject: RE: pike and CIL/mono
Hello,
<puts on his asbestos suit>
I believe there is a pike-like language that runs on the mono JIT with excellent compiler and runtime support. It's called C#.
Why then try to turn a good language that has its niche and users into a half-baked copy of something else?
Because the mountain (of work) is there?
Regards,
Peter.
'God-like aliens - man, do I hate god-like aliens. I'll trade a critter for a god-like alien any day.'
- John Crichton, Meltdown
/ Brevbäraren