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Re: C# frontend

To: Per Abrahamsen <abraham at dina dot kvl dot dk>
Subject: Re: C# frontend
From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
Date: 14 Dec 2000 11:11:02 -0800
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012141334240.2487-100000@kyle.nv.london><3A38EA92.A6EC138B@wcom.com> <rjy9xikgzr.fsf@ssv2.dina.kvl.dk>

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Seriously, are the languages close enough that it would make sense to
> implement C# as a language variation in Java front-end?

Well, there are big similarities, but the many things (including syntax)
are different.  They have similar object models, but C# also has "unboxed"
objects (struct types, not just reference types), and the primitive
number types as just builtin unboxed types.  This idea (which I believe
comes from Eiffel) makes a lot of sense to me.
-- 
	--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com   http://www.bothner.com/~per/

References:
- Re: C# frontend
  - From: Mo McKinlay
- Re: C# frontend
  - From: Davy Durham
- Re: C# frontend
  - From: Per Abrahamsen

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