Re: [9fans] Intermediate Language

["\"Nils O. Selåsdal\"" <noselasd@asgaard.homelinux.org>]

Vladimir Giszpenc wrote:
> Hello language enthusiasts,
>
> My background is that of a lowly consumer of languages, but I followed a
> few links and here I am addressing you.  Plan 9 looks very interesting
> on paper and I am sure in action as well.  I will further confess that I
> have enjoyed such disparaged languages as C# and even VB.  My question
> is as follows:
>
> Why not have an intermediate language similar to MSIL but more suited to
> your OS?
Ask yourself rather Why ?


I have heard about the difference between stack based versus
> register based architechtures, but I have not understood yet why that
> stops you or some standards body from coming up with a set of language
> primitives that permit other languages to be compiled to it.  The
> compilers written for the actual languages would be very portable and
> the compilers for the intermediate language would be simpler.
> I personally don't have anything againg using the Mono or .Gnu stuff.  I
> think the Mono stuff is more portable and more GUI oriented which I like
Mono. Portable.
Hah ?
http://www.skyos.org/?q=node/464