From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA05345 for caml-red; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:09:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA28875 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:46:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from cremant.inria.fr (cremant.inria.fr [128.93.8.143]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f1C9kE909554 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:46:15 +0100 (MET) Received: (from lefessan@localhost) by cremant.inria.fr (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f1C9kEa10095; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:46:14 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: cremant.inria.fr: lefessan set sender to fabrice.le_fessant@inria.fr using -f From: Fabrice Le Fessant MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14983.45286.765724.661410@cremant.inria.fr> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:46:14 +0100 (CET) To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: RE: OCaml on CLR/JVM? X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.7.1 Reply-To: fabrice.le_fessant@inria.fr Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Is the .NET VM open source ? Which part is Microsoft-independent ? After loosing progressively some parts of the OS market, is Microsoft trying to conquer the VM market ? Why should all software developers always depend on some Microsoft software ? Before it was the OS. But now, many languages are OS independent ... And now, they want to capture the market again, through the .NET VM ? Ocaml is not a _hack_, as I have read in some recent mails, but a _good_ independent language. It should not change to follow a commercial standart, which will itself change for commercial reasons, as soon as the market is captured ... If Microsoft wants its new product to be used, it is Microsoft problem to port more languages to its VM, and not only say: "We have ported our homemade languages to it (C#, C++, VB.NET) [because it was designed for them], so, you see, we have proved it's the universal VM. Now, do the same for your languages, or your language will not be used anymore by our customers..." So, why do we really need a .NET port of OCaml ? OCaml is working fine on Windows, and on many other OS ... - Fabrice