On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
Actually I think I stand by my original statement all the more. Free
software _doesn't_ offer an alternative. OK, it's possible to run
some mixed languages on the JVM. But it's not practical -- you can't
practically write a Jython library called by an OCamljava main program
[substitute your favorite languages here as appropriate]. Mono/.Net
_is_ the only widely available practical implementation
(unfortunately).
This is a serious question. Certain groups of users I've talkd to
like OCaml, but don't want to write whole programs in OCaml (or want
to use their existing libraries with it). Unfortunately for everyone
F# is being seen as a practical solution to their problem, which means
they're locked into a proprietary language on a proprietary operating
system.