  Re: Firefox and Moonlight (Mono) "Free Software" Status?  On
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones redhat
com> wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:34:04AM -0400, Colin
Walters wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Richard W.M.
Jones <rjones redhat com> > wrote: > > One major reason is that
it allows languages to be mixed and to call > > easily from one
language to another.  Free software dropped the ball > > on this
(Parrot), and Mono/.Net is the only widely available > >
implementation of this idea. > It was *marketed* as such, but in
fact many different languages have run on > the JVM for a long
time: > http://www.robert-tolksdorf.de/vmlanguages.html > Some
of them date to 1996.  This is getting pretty tedious.    And
offtopic for fedora-devel.  But, it's a more interesting
discussion than a complaint thread about nVidia drivers =) In
brief, the JVM has design issues that make implementing non-
Java-like languages hard and/or slow.  That's a rather sweeping
generalization, which seems to