Portable .NET Reaches A Quarter Million Lines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday December 26, 2001 @04:33AM from the billions-and-billions-served dept.

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.

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Why bother .NET? by roxytheman · 2001-12-26 04:45 · Score: 1, Troll

I say think crative instead of jumping on the M$ .NET bandwagon. Do we really need .NET or C# on Linux when we got Java and C++? As I see it, both .NET and C# was created by M$ to earn some more bucks for Bill's wallet.

Why not use resources to create better Java sollutions or C++ sollutions instead?

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Re:Benefit of the doubt? by geek · 2001-12-26 05:28 · Score: 0, Troll

How about we give this guy the benefit of the doubt and assume he knows what he's doing
How about not? I'm a scientist and therefore a skeptic. If I gave every crack pot the benefit of the doubt we'ld all be flying through space in cold fusion propelled star ships saying "I Captian, I'm givin her all I got".