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Re: Rumours RE:.NET

At 14:23 01/17/2003, Mark Phippard wrote:

Ken,

Doesn't ASNA already offer support for RPG in .NET with their Visual RPG?

Microsoft doesn't have to do anything, the CLR which is the heart of .NET
is language neutral.  It is just a matter of writing a compiler that
generates CLR code.  I believe that MicroFocus and/or Fujitsu are already
doing Cobol versions, and ASNA has done RPG.

http://www.asna.com/AVRNET.asp
Mark,

ASNA has been working on .NET for a couple of years now. I first saw a demo at ASNAPalooza 2001. AFAIK, it isn't in production yet. Version 4 was released only recently, and it does not use .NET. According to what I picked up from ASNA, you are correct that .NET uses an intermediate language, a little like MI, and a compiler for .NET must generate the intermediate language instead of an executable or linkable object. Apparently, there is no transparent way to convert existing code to .NET either.


Pete Hall
pbhall@ameritech.net
http://www.pbhall.us/


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