pr0gm3r

Hi Guys,

I just need to clarify the main goal of .Net Framwork and Mono is to implement many different languages to be compile into IL (Intermediate Language) ? But as for now .Net only support C++, C#, J#, VB.Net, and ASP.Net.

In the later future is .Net and Mono going to be able to implement in language such as Ada, SamllTalk, Pascal, COBOL, and other programming language to compiled them to IL and run it in different operating systems is that correct? (My perspective).

I have search Microsoft’s website and Mono’s website, but I couldn’t find any detail on it.

Please let me know if there are any mistake or unclear message on this post..


Thank you in advance.

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Arevos

It depends on developer interest, and how popular .NET becomes. If it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, there will likely be a lot of languages ported to work with .NET. If it's less popular, you won't see so many languages.

Microsoft are likely just going to implement their own languages (ie. C#, VB and ASP). Other languages will be left up to other developers.

pr0gm3r

ok... Thank you for the clerifications on that.

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Infinite Recursion

I would also thing that MS would support their own languages. The creators of other languages may not choose to have anything to do with .NET. While others, may work on porting their languages and others over. Bottom line is, C# in particular works quite well cross platform... so Java will have a run for its money.

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Mono/.NET doesn't support any of these languages specifically in its runtime, it supports CIL. Any language with a CIL compiler written for it can compile into CIL and can thus be supported, and there are already a lot more languages than the ones you mentioned who have compilers already made for them.

For instance Nemerle, Boo, IronPython, Ruby.NET, Java (IKVM) and the list goes on (and it's not shortening!).

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Ada, SamllTalk, Pascal, COBOL all have a .net alternative random .net lanuage list.