[fpc-devel] Russian locale information not compatible with FPC locale variables

[Michael Schnell]

> If this was true, Java would have taken that market already. There is
> nothing new to that aspect of CIL, and specially with only one minor vendor
> supporting it.
>   
Basically you are right, but
 - In fact Java is very widely in use (even though there are lots of 
shortcomings regarding Java <e.g. performance> )
 - AFAIK, CIL seems to improve some of the Java shortcomings
 - CIL defines concepts for multi-treading and multi-processing
 - every year the processing performance and available memory resources 
improve and thus creating "economical" object code is less critical
 - While (AFAIK) there are no (or only very few and rarely used) 
languages besides Java that can create byte code for the just-in-time 
compiling Java Framework, There are a lot languages with compilers form 
different brands usable with CIL (several C# compilers, C++, Pascal, 
(Oxygen and Delphi), Visual Basic, Iron-Python, .., <is there a 
Java->CIL compiler ?> )

- Michael