client side scripting

[Toby Dickenson]

Dave Kuhlman <dkuhlman at rexx.com> wrote:

>Looking to the future (and this is something that makes me bite my
>tongue each time I have something bad to say about Microsoft), the
>MS .Net strategy for Web services and all supports multiple
>languages.  My understanding is that in that strategy, if it goes
>somewhere, you will be able to write .Net apps and services in a
>variety of languages in addition to C#.  Python will be one of
>those languages and Python will even be usable within Visual Studio
>7.0, due to the work by ActiveState.
>
>That is in sharp contrast to the "one language only" attitude in
>the Java camp.

Of course things like Jython allow a different language to be layered
on top of the JVM.

both the JVM and .net suffer the same way from a
one-runtime-environment attitude.



Toby Dickenson
tdickenson at geminidataloggers.com