OpenEuphoria

Re: About .NET

• Posted by David <dcuny at lanset.com> Jul 29, 2004
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Philip Deets wrote:

> I thing there are over 65 programming
> languages that can create .NET applications.

And oddly enough, they all look exactly like C#. That is, all .NET languages 
tend to have the same datatypes, control structures, and so on. The .NET 
framework works well with compiled languages, but rather poorly with 
interpreted languages that have dynamic datatypes.

There are two approaches you can take with .NET: compile to the .NET 
intermediate language, or create an interpreter that runs under .NET.

In the first scenario (compile to .NET), you have the advantage of the 
language being able to run as a "first class citizen" and having full access 
to the .NET library. That's sort of the point of .NET: all languages get 
equal access to the same libraries, so they are equally powerful.

In the second (create an interpreter), you end up with a language that runs 
under .NET, but doesn't necessarily have any of the advantages of .NET, other 
than running under .NET.

I don't see any reason why Euphoria wouldn't be able to work under either 
scenario.

-- David Cuny