In Contrast to DotGNU... (Score 2, Insightful)

It is almost ironic, that while both Mono and DotGNU aim to support .NET on Linux and various platforms, Miguel claims that "C is dead" while the folks over at DotGNU have been working on the C compiler portion of pnet. In my opinion, it's much more advantageous to support multiple languages and platforms, as to bring in developer support and a wide userbase, than to narrow yourself to a few platforms (I read about Mono just getting ported to Sparc64, while DotGNU's pnet has ran on it for some time, among many many other platforms. Ranging from the Playstation 2, to the iPaq.) and trying to depreciate (In verbal statements or otherwise) other languages. Sone of the major points of the IL platform in general, are it's ability to run the same binary on multiple platforms and operating environments, and also the ability to compile multiple, and completely different languages to it. It seems like Mono is sort of missing the boat on both of these to a certian extent. Regards, Chris Gilbert (Neovanglist)