Steve Thatcher wrote:
actually, .NET is a platform where individual
compilers
(C#, J#, VB, Fortran, etc) generate an abstract code that
is compiled and run in the .NET runtime. C# can not run and
execute Cobol for example, but you can freely intermix
classes that each could be written in any language. Any
class no matter what language it is written in can be
called by a class or call another class.
A class may not be compiled until runtime (JIT - just in
time), but once it is compiled then it is available immediately.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
Sounds a hell like p-code, few years later ;-)