Microsoft's C# (Sharp) & .NET -- A Heads Up

[Robin Becker]

The fact that there are dyed in the wool M$ hating academics is surely a
reflection of M$'s past behaviour. The fact that M$ can apparently turn
these guys around so easily says a lot about what M$ is really good at
(selling and hype) and also about what the academics are poor at (real
world judgement). If M$ is doing something for the competition there's a
reason for it. No doubt in the environment addressed by IL Python.NET
(or whatever it comes to be called) will have some critical advantage
which M$ will use in whatever way it sees fit.

This IL stuff is not a big deal intellectually so why doesn't M$ just
release the language definition and sources and let the big & small guys
play?

Which part of a broken up M$ will control IL/.NET? when can we expect
.NET2 or whatever? What parts of the IL/.NET API have not been made
public? Etc. Etc.
-Tee-shirt thinking really won't cut it-ly yrs
Robin Becker