python compiled to native in less than a year?

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Knowing M$, at least one of the following will hold :

1) M$ will not cleanly document IL, making it almost impossible to know it apporpriately;
2) M$ will patent IL, so royalties will have to be paid for its use (aka: bye-bye, Free Software)

And since we're at it: what's the dirty trick Sun played with Java?
--
Giuseppe Bilotta


s <slhath at flash.net> wrote in message GqH86.6041$J%.605518 at news.flash.net...
> I believe that you are mistaken...the IL is NOT MS specific and is not tied
> to any specific platform or chipset.  Some company should easily be able to
> take IL and create a compiler that will work on Linux, Unix, Mac, etc.
>
> Scott
>
> "Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message
> news:mailman.979575676.22737.python-list at python.org...
> > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, scotth wrote:
> > > Since the new .NET platform from MS will take all the compatible .NET
> > > languages and transform them to an IL (intermediate language ???), then
> take
> > > the IL to native compiled code, this means that python will be compiled,
> but
> > > only for the Windows platform.
> > >
> > > Is what I have said correct, or have I missed something?  This would
> give
> > > python a huge boost!
> >
> > <OFFTOPIC mode="flame">
> >    I am afraid you are near to be correct. This way M$ is trying to bound
> > you to one damned platform. This dirty trick is the answer to Sun's dirty
> > tricks with Java.
> >
> >    Stay away from M$, it is perfectly dangerous. Whatever is touched by M$
> > soon become M$ :( Don't touch M$, too, let the Sun be sad example :(((
> > </OFFTOPIC>
> >
> > Oleg.
> > ----
> >      Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
> >            Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
> >
> >
>
>