The second part of my question pertained only to have a working version of the .NET CLR running on non-win32 platforms, e.g. Linux.It won't do Well you will need compilers as part of that to convert the MSIL into executable code. As I understand it there are several compilers in Microsoft's .NET implementation. A 'pre-jit' that is used as an install time compiler, a typical jit used at runtime and perhaps an optimizing compiler as well. Unfortunately I don't know much about the optimizing compiler plans, nor how things like the ssa stuff in the IL will be safely used.

Perhaps we should move this conversation off the haskell list, as we drifted rather far off topic.. niall