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

[Michael Schnell]

> Funny that you say that about the Oxygene language. To me the language
> concept and marketing screams ".NET me too wannabe".
>   
Remobj is one of the few companies that bring the cross-platform 
features, and thus the promising future of CIL (aka ".NET" in Microsoft 
speak) up to front. They, too, do use the term ".NET" instead of "CIL", 
because otherwise 90% of the readers would not know what they are 
talking about :( . But they do advertise that Oxygen can compile for 
multiple OSes (using Mono bindings) and multiple processors (e.g. using 
portable .NET bindings). If the user code is done in a way that all 
bindings are possible (this can be checked with the SDK), the resulting 
Assembly will run "everywhere". (At least this is what I understood.)

IMHO, CIL (".NET") is a really promising concept for the future of 
computing. I just read about an "embedded" CIL Framework, done for a 
deeply embedded CPU that is to be configured ("programmed") into an FPGA 
(IMHO this is the future of deeply embedded Computing) and this 
Framework does not even need an OS to run (but can take advantage of any 
co-existing OS, says the article).

Provided that it's a lot easier to create a compiler for CIL than 
creating it for multiple CPUs and OSes, IMHO, this is the way to go on 
the long run. (But of course native code will widely be in use for 
several years to come :) ).

-Michael