[ANSOL-geral][recortes] Portable.NET Now 100% Free Software

[Lopo de Almeida]

Portable.NET Now 100% Free Software
in SlashDot

    rhysweatherley writes "Finally after months of hard work and bucket
    loads of caffeine, the [0]DotGNU community has finally got
    [1]Portable.NET to the point of building our C# libraries on many Free
    Software platforms with our own C# compiler. This is a big deal!
    Portable.NET is now 100% pure Free Software, with no dependencies on
    third party C# tools. The compiler, which is written in C, bootstraps
    off gcc, so there are no icky 'how to compile the compiler' problems.
    And it's fast! The DotGNU team consists of lots of contributors, many
    of whom are coincidentially named 'Rhys Weatherley,' but this wouldn't
    have been possible without the support of the DotGNU community,
    especially the Weekend Warriors. .NET is not the only thing we are
    doing. We're playing around with JVM and Parrot (of perl6 fame)
    backends to the compiler. And we have a C compiler front-end that
    generates pure bytecode apps that can run on any decent CIL
    implementation (Portable.NET, Mono, etc). We are about 95% of the way
    towards our first milestone of an ECMA-compatible C# implementation.
    There are lots of things still to be done in the low-level C#
    libraries, runtime engine, and the compiler. So, if you have some time
    on your hands, and like messing with languages and stuff, like yours
    truly ... have look and maybe have some fun!" 
Links
    0. http://www.dotgnu.org/
    1. http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html