RE: [xsl] XSLT 1.1 comments

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>]

At 9:58 AM -0800 2/12/01, Adam Van Den Hoven wrote:

>Perhaps, instead of defining everything in terms of JAVA or C++, perhaps its
>time to take a left turn and look at Microsoft's CLI which would allow one
>to write in any language (assuming a proper complier existed) and run on any
>platform. I have no idea how it would work but I'm sure someone does. In
>fact, using CLI is perhaps better than JAVA, if for no other reason than
>interoperablity. Microsoft has submitted C# and the CLI
>(http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/memento/tc39.htm) to ECMA for standardization
>where JAVA is apparently still proprietary to SUN.
>

No it isn't. CLI is language independent but platform dependent. You 
can use any language you like as long as you run it on Windows.
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