Re: Microsoft Research: Announcing grants for shared source CLI and C# implementations

["Scott McKay" <address@hidden>]

When CLI supports languages like Lisp and Dylan, I will be glad
to contribute and I am sure others on these lists will as well.  Until such
time -- not to put too fine a point on it -- please don't insult us with
offers to do so-called "research" to legitimize the crappy, derivative,
backward-looking C# and its anti-competitive closed-world runtime.

If you would like to engage in a conversation about what it would take
to truly open up CLI and make it support such languages, I am sure you
would find a very willing audience here.

Thank *you* for your attention.

"Greg O'Shea" <gregos@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18201bf2.0204020512.2a9c8faa@posting.google.com...
> Microsoft invites grant proposals from academics wishing to make early
> use of the shared source ("Rotor") implementations of the Common
> Language Infrastructure (CLI) and C# programming language for teaching
> or research, and from academics wishing to actively promote the growth
> of a community of Rotor users. Around 25 awards are available, in the
> region of $10,000 to $20,000 each, for the period June 2002 -
> September 2003.
>
> Information about the Rotor code and terms is available at:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/sscli/
>
> Information about the Rotor grant programme is available at:
> http://research.microsoft.com/programs/europe/rotor/
>
> Please feel free to forward this notice to your colleagues. Thank you
> for your attention.