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Mono's MCS Compiles Itself On Linux
thing12 writes "On Thursday Paolo Molaro announced that he had managed to build the MCS C# compiler using MCS. This is a big step forward for Mono, as it means that Mono is almost a self hosting environment."
According to what previous articles said, I can guess RMS may not be too happy with this. Any idea, what happened to the election for Gnome Board. RMS was fighting for it in order to counter the Mono threat. Poor guy already had his hands full of Microsoft when this comes along.
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C# is an incredibly good laungage
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I'm far from a microsoft fan, my entire career depends on my unix admin skills, but being a dabbeler in programming (mostly procedual stuff) has really opened my eyes on programming in general, and c# is an EXCELLENT object oreintated language, as soon as i picked up a little c#, object oreintation just started to make sense, i had difficulty with it before in c++ but now the peices fall into place.
Combine this with the excellent garbage collector features, and EXTREMLY easy to use GUI designer (just as easy as visual basic) and ability to import code from other languages and use it combines to make C# a great language, I for one am extremly happy gnome is supporting it and hope you all give it a try. Tell me what you think.
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That's sort of like saying "well, the Wright brothers' airplane only few for a minute or so. Close, but still more work is needed before this is really an exciting milestone"
It's a heck of a milestone. Of course it's not useful yet, but they're not claiming it is.
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What if Microsoft is trojaning all our code?
We will never know, now will we? What's the good of open source that is built off of completely untrustworthy closed source?
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I still think it's a shame Mono has gone off doing C# when the analogous project based on Java would already be much further along
I think it's a shame that do-nothing armchair language critiques who do not contribute to free software can air their useless uninformed opinions and pine about "what could have been" only if someone else did the work.
There are many open source Java vitrual machine and library projects - stop bitching and moaning and start contributing to one of them, you lazy bastard!
I'm sorry, C# seems like it will be better than Java.
From the beginning C# has been made to be natively compiled if desired and that means speed. Even GCJ generates large and slow code (compared to say, O'Caml).
In my own testing I've found O'Caml to be not much slower than C, even with array bounds checking turned on, that's quite impressive. I've been programming in functional languages for some time now and I haven't decided if I like them better than C-like imperative languages. To me functional languages cater to the computer (or algorithm) and not the programmer. I think both styles are good for certain things but generally an imperative language is easier to program in for non-math/algorithm experts.
If C# can have the speed of O'Caml but with an imperative, C-like programming style, then I think we'll have a winner.
My perfect language would be a type-safe, bounds-safe, inferencing, C-like language with OO extensions (but not go off the deep end of OO like C++ did). And it should create programs that run at the same speed as C (or real close). In other words, I want O'Caml with a C-like syntax.
If Microsoft's next version of Office is for the .NET framework, and mono is fully working, There will be Office on Linux.
MS has a history of using undocumented features to make sure their software runs better than competitors' offerings under Windows. I think you can rest assured that MS won't allow their software to go platform independent. There will most definitely be SOMETHING in Office that will prevent it from running on Linux. They said Kerberos would interoperate, too.
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C++ is hardly "off the OO deep end". Not in the sense that Smalltalk, or even Java, is. In the words of it's creator:
As a longtime C++ user, I can attest to this fact from personal experience. In fact, there have been times when I've wished C++ was more OO than it is.
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