Re: Non-C bindings in GNOME

["Miguel de Icaza" <miguel ximian com>]

Murray Cumming writes: 

> I doubt that it's possible to find a common ground for all programming
> languages, and it's clear that the current VM/CLR ideas do not succeed
> in this. It might cover lots of intentionally-under-featured languages
> (e.g. Java, VB) and interpreted languages (e.g Perl, Python), but not
> all programming languages. .NET's "Managed C++" is a perfect example of
> this, and I don't want to go there. 

Managed C++ only exposes bits for your application to interact with the VM 
in a controlled fashion.  You are not required to use any extensions if you 
just want to run on the CLR. 

You just compile with the /clr option to the C++ compiler and feed all your 
existing code to it.  In fact, making Word compile with the /clr compiler 
was a routine test. 

Miguel