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."

Comments

Re:Almost but not quite...

[John_Booty]

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.

Re:a word for the ignorant

[LinuxHam]

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.

C++ is a multi paradigm language

[avdi]

but not go off the deep end of OO like C++ did

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:

C++ is a multi-paradigm programming language that supports Object-Oriented and other useful styles of programming. If what you are looking for is something that forces you to do things in exactly one way, C++ isn't it. There is no one right way to write every program - and even if there were there would be no way of forcing programmers to use it.

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.