Portable .NET Reaches A Quarter Million Lines

Pnet Guy writes: "Portable .NET is a component of the dotGNU meta project to provide a CLI (ECMA standard) platform for free software. The project true to its name runs on a variety of platform including Linux,Hurd and Cygwin GNU systems. To avoid any legal problems Pnet has decided to go the hard way and bootstrap our compiler off gcc. Unlike Mono which uses microsoft's runtime to run their compiler. Our premier developer Rhys Weatherly has contributed 254,423 lines written since Jan 1, 2001. Which amounts to about 5000 lines per week which is phenomenal for any programmer. He is dotGNU's one-man army. So join him in celebrating his quarter billion lines of his code." Update: 12/27 02:41 GMT by T : Note that as many readers have pointed out, that's just like the headline says -- a quarter million lines, rather than billion. Some related links to check out include the dotGNU home page, the Southern Storm Software (Rhys Weatherley's shop, with Portable .NET information), Mono's page and Pnet's CVS repository.

Comments

Re:Billions and Billions

[ChazeFroy]

I have perfect functionality at less than 200 megs with LFS. Look into it.

Re:Benefit of the doubt?

[void warranty()]

So it's your fault we don't have warp drive yet? You bastard!

You know you're thinking it

[abe ferlman]

//All work and no play makes Rhys a dull boy
//Al7 work and no Play makes rhys a dull boy
//All work and NO play mak3s Rhys a dull b0y
//All w0rk and no play makes Rhys a duLl boy
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