Re:Scala: sharp and gets things cut
by lmm on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:59PM
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I'd say just the opposite; there have been more languages for the JVM than for the CLR because Java-the-language is a worse language than C#, so people are more motivated to create replacements.
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Re:Scala: sharp and gets things cut
by dragonwriter on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:17PM
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There are more languages for the CLR than the JVM, since, via IKVM, the set of JVM languages is a proper subset of the set of CLR languages.
So, if there being more languages that can be run on the VM is a marker of weakness of the primary language for the VM, ...