Hi Gerry,

I would love to be proven wrong. If what your saying pans out, I could develop a Mono App which would easily port to windows as will as all the other major platforms. Such an application could also be accessed from all browsers including IE. This would also mean I could write an App in Dot Net which could be accessed form any other platform using all other browsers.

This is a wonderful idea. However, I have not seen any indication from Microsoft that they intend for Dot Net to be cross platform. There has been no effort on the part of Microsoft to develop a Linux or Unix version of the Dot Net Platform or the Dot Net Software Development Kit. All efforts to make Dot Net interoperable have been at the expense of individual and organization outside of Microsoft like Mono. My impression is that Microsoft resent the idea that its Dot Net would work on any platform other than Windows. This give me major heart burn when considering the option to develop on either a Dot Net or Mono platform.

Changing topics a little, Dot Net will work with 20 or so different languages. I suppose each language must provide a parser that converts from the native language like Visual Perl, C++.Net, VB.Net, etc. into the language the common runtime uses. If I understand it correctly, the just in time common runtime language would then compile the code when the program is called for execution. I'm I correct in assuming the parser of all the various native languages are phrased into C#?

LelandJ