Re: About .NET
Tommy Carlier wrote:
>
> Philip Deets wrote:
> >
> > The next version of Windows will be coming in about two years. This version
> > will have
> > an entirely new programming model using the .NET platform.
> > To those of you who are not famaliar with .NET, it is similar to Java in
> > that it uses
> > a virtual machine to run the program. One of its key advantages over Java
> > however,
> > is that you can use it in a variety of programming languages, not just one.
> > I thing
> > there are over 65 programming languages that can create .NET applications.
>
> At work, we create .NET-applications in C# that operate over the Internet
> (client/server),
> and I have to say: it's very cool. A lot of what you need is already in the
> base class
> libraries: networking, database access (SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, OleDB, ...),
> graphics,
> XML, Regular Expressions, Windows Forms, ...
> I've already thought of creating a .NET-version of Euphoria (Euphoria.NET or
> E# ?).
> A Euphoria-compiler could easily be written in C#, since the .NET framework
> already
> has classes that let you create IL-code (IL = intermediate language, the
> bytecode used
> by the .NET VM).
> The problem is that .NET is completely object-oriented and Euphoria isn't. So
> creating
> a .NET Euphoria-language wouldn't be compatible with RDS Euphoria. But I think
> that
> is not necessary.
>
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>
That approach would work too, compiling euphoria to .NET, but then that would
eliminate the euphoria runtime. Microsoft would be doing that. I thought maybe
RDS could still run euphoria with their euIL interpretter (coming in v. 2.5), but
I think euphoria ought to be able to run managed code too (like it can C code) so
euphorians can use .NET.
Phil
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