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February 11, 2002

JavaLobby, "One Runtime to Bind

JavaLobby, "One Runtime to Bind Them All": "The Common Language Runtime is being sold as a libertarian technology that levels the playing field for minority languages. The reality looks much darker instead. The CLR is not truly language-neutral... all languages in the mix are virtually identical. Microsoft has actually invented the concept of skinnable language: changing a language’s most superficial aspects..". The article also points to a fascinating list of JVM-based languages, including truly mind-bending stuff like Funnel.