Microsoft spins Rotor tools update
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft this week posted an update to its Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) implementation, codenamed Rotor, which adds support for Mac OS X. Rotor is described by Microsoft as a compressed archive of source code to a working implementation of the ECMA CLI and ECMA C# language specification. It provides a resource for academics and researchers to explore programming language concepts for Microsoft .Net developers interested in studying the technology.
"The CLI contains the specifications for a runtime engine that can run programming language code," said John Montgomery, Microsoft group product manager for developer platform, in Redmond, Wash. CLI is the core part of the .Net Framework for functions such as managing object creation and memory.