D vs. C#

[Lutger]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Jussi Jumppanen wrote:
>> I think Microsoft's longer term vision is to have .NET everywhere
>> and I mean everywhere.
> 
> 
> I've never been able to discover what the fundamental advantage of a VM is.

I thought the .NET platform was developed with the intent to replace 
COM? And by extension, complementing and / or replacing the C way of 
cross-talking between languages for application development.