D vs. C#

[Steven Schveighoffer]

"Clay Smith" wrote
> 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.
>
> The ability to have multiple language's targeting the same VM, as well as 
> lowering the barrier for a language to become cross platform.
>
> I think the future of computing may be to allow the programmer to choose 
> whatever compiled language they want, and eventually have all languages 
> compiled down to the same 'bytecode' so they can all interoperate with 
> each other.

The future is now :)  .net does this.  C++.net and J# (Java-like .net) and 
C# and VB and COBOL.net, and oh I don't know, look at this page: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Languages

BTW, I don't think the result is an advantage, as in practice, the language 
is more important than the object format, so you still end up only using the 
best language (in my mind, C# is the best .net language).  All these 
languages must use the .net library to be compatible.

-Steve