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

["Ken Forbus" <address@hidden>]

They already support Scheme.  The implementation was done at Northwestern.

   Ken



Scott McKay <swm@attbi.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
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