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Compatibility is king |
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Thu, 19 Jul 2001 05:07:16 -0600 (MDT) |
Let me explain first that it is not a design goal for the DotGNU
platform to be fully compatible with .NET - We want the DotGNU
platform to be much more powerful than Microsoft's VES, hence
applications that are built for the DotGNU platform will not
work on the .NET "Virtual Execution System".
Upward compatibility with CLI and C# is absolutely essential.
Microsoft is sure to have more users than we do--at least at the
beginning, and maybe forever unless we have a tremendous victory
(which we cannot take for granted).
So please start making compatibility a priority.
Maybe we could have an engine that will interpret two kind
of byte codes, both CLI and Java, each one compatibly.
Then maybe C# and Java programs could intercall each other.
I don't know if this is feasible, but it would be nice.
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