As usual, Joshua Allen makes the intellegent points, this time about the CLR, pragmatism and Miguel. This was something that came up in conversation on the way back from steven's pass this weekend. I'm going to remeber the Allen Cox, but Java's VM is Turning Complete remark for a while. I'm reminded of learning about a turning complete programming language back in high school while interning at Mitre. It had the most complex bizzare operations as it's primitivites, and was mostly a intellectual challenge then something practical.The primary difference between the JVM and the CLR in my perspective is that the CLR was designed to handle multiple languages well, it was a design goal. This shows in all the peices, the Frameworks are exposed to all languages, the CLS, the debugging tools, etc. There is no reason the JVM can't be that way as well, but it wasn't a goal during it's design.
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