Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? by andyjohnson0 on Friday March 23, 2012 @06:47PM (#3747745)

It is incredibly difficult to build a runtime like .NET, especially as it was never designed to be cross-platform.

Just a historical note: The Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure [1] aka "Rotor" is an alternative version of the .net 2.0 platform developed by Microsoft for research/education use. It can be compiled for FreeBSD and Mac OS X 10. Its rather out of date, but maybe shows that MS did make some kind of effort to make it cross-platform.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Language_I...

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Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? by chollida1 on Friday March 23, 2012 @07:11PM (#3747804)

I remember working on Rotor when I was at Corel.

I'm glad to see someone still uses it:)

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Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? by cornedpig on Friday March 23, 2012 @08:13PM (#3747962)

Even outside of .NET, it's got a tool built-in to make L"strings" 16-bit on all platforms, which is cool for portability (and an implementation of nmake for unix, which can also come in handy)

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Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? by tmiller on Friday March 23, 2012 @08:14PM (#3747967)

Do you know how it relates to Silverlight for Mac?

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