python compiled to native in less than a year?

[Tom]

No, that is incorrect.

IL is fully documented (available on MS/Intel/HP sites), and has been handed
over to a standards body so MS can't patent it or charge any money for it.
Anyone can do anything they want with it - for free.  For the record, they
have also handed over C# and all of the API's for their new environment
except for the (very important) DB and GUI API's.

I am not suggesting that they don't have an angle here.  They, like Sun,
will do anything they can get away with.

As regards Java, the trick is that it isn't similarly standardized, so they
can charge royalties for it whenever they want (ie. after it gets
established).

Tom.

"Giuseppe Bilotta" <oblomov at freemail.it> wrote in message
news:G9K86.60439$eB2.5067059 at news.infostrada.it...
> Knowing M$, 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.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>