Python vs D [ was Re: Bartosz about Chapel ]

[Marco Leise]

Am 11.11.2011, 10:29 Uhr, schrieb Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk>:

> It is interesting that there is an explosion of languages on JVM, but
> Microsoft is retrenching to C#/F#/VB#/C++CLR on CLR and shedding any
> language it is not directly in control of.

Just as a historical anecdote: The Delphi inventor (Anders Hejlsberg)  
switched to Microsoft and was a co-inventor of .NET. Besides Delphi.NET  
there are Eiffel, Mercury, IronPython, Nemerle, Oberon ... you name it.  
Maybe I didn't understand what you mean by shedding, though :)