A.2 Third-Party Languages for .NET

Table A-2 shows a list of third-party languages with compilers that target the CLR. Some of these are research languages, while others are commercial languages that target .NET. Browse the provided web sites to read more about the languages that interest you. As noted earlier, this list of languages could grow by the time this book hits the market, so be sure to check the following site for the most up-to-date listings: http://www.gotdotnet.com.

Table A-2. Third-party languages

Language	Link
APL	http://www.dyadic.com
COBOL	http://www.adtools.com/info/whitepaper/net.html
Component Pascal	http://www.citi.qut.edu.au/research/plas/projects/component_pascal.jsp
Delta Forth	http://www.dataman.ro/dforth/
Eiffel#	http://www.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/dotnet/eiffelsharp/white_paper.html
Fortran	http://www.lahey.com/dotnet.htm, http://www.salfordsoftware.co.uk/compilers/ftn95/dotnet.shtml
Haskell	http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/ghc
Mercury	http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/dotnet.html
Mondrian	http://www.mondrian-script.org
Oberon	http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/lightning
Perl	http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/NET
Python	http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/NET
RPG	http://www.asna.com/pr2%5F20%5F01.asp
Scheme	http://rover.cs.nwu.edu/~scheme
Smalltalk	http://www.lesser-software.com/en/content/products/lswvst/LSWVSt.htm
S#	http://www.smallscript.net
Standard ML	http://www.research.microsoft.com/Projects/SML.NET
TMT Pascal	http://www.tmt.com/net.htm

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