Re: Any way to compile to .NET (Mono or MS's)

Hi,

On 28 Jun 2005, at 08:51, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi,
>
>>> I wonder if there is a way to directly or indirectly compile to  IL
>>>
>> What do you mean by IL ?
>> IL Intemediate Language ?
>> What for ?
>
> I agree with Dominique. When eventually we implement a .net backend, I
> think we will directly generate CLI, not MSIL (as compile_to_jvm  
> generates
> Java bytecode).
>
> Currently we don't have a .net backend. It's a huge work, not for 2.2.

I have this same project written up as a project in my research group  
here at UCD.  So far none of my students have taken it, but we  
current have about two dozen MSc students now looking for projects,  
and another several dozen fourth year students looking for thesis  
projects, etc. over the coming few months, so we can cross our fingers.

I already had someone choose to work on a new, rich Eiffel Eclipse  
plugin that you will hear more about in the coming weeks.

See <http://secure.ucd.ie/documents/proposals/> for more  
information.   This web page is being expanded quite a bit over the  
next couple of days.  I'm on the road now and just have not finished  
up the cvs commit for such.

Joe
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Joseph Kiniry
Department of Computer Science
University College Dublin
http://secure.ucd.ie/