Re: Major change proposal

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 01:17, Charles Hixson wrote:
> Depending on Mono means that you are basing your GUIs around GTK#, at 
> least for the next bit.  (I don't think of that as bad, but rather as 
> something to be considered.)

There's also Qt# (http://qtcsharp.sourceforge.net/) and wx.NET
(http://wxnet.sourceforge.net/), although the latter doesn't look stable
yet.

> Another thing to evaluate is "What language design compromises would you 
> need to make in order to fit into the .net model with reasonable 
> execution efficiency?"  I know that the first version of Eiffel# 
> abandoned multiple inheritance, though I understand that later they 
> found a way to re-include it.

Yes, I thought the prevailing wisdom was the the .NET architecture
wasn't good for dynamic languages - hence Parrot.  I wounder how
IronPython managed it.

Joe