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Mono and dotGnu: What's the Point?

Posted by michael on from the fighting-words dept.

joeykiller writes "The Register features an opinion by Neil Davidson, asking 'Mono and dotGnu: What's the point?' Some of the points he raises may seem irrelevant for open source supporters (like why make a C# compiler while Microsoft's is free anyway), but others are thought provoking and maybe a little bit controversial. You may not agree with his opinions, but it's an interesting read anyway."

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  1. One quibble: by burgburgburg · · Score: 5, Funny
    By the time Mono is anywhere near 90 percent of the current functionality of .NET, Microsoft will have released Whidbey, Yukon and probably Longhorn.

    Right after we see the releases of Duke Nukem Forever and Doom III.

  2. Re:Um... not free exactly... by Vargasan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it was supposed to be a GNU, not a YAK.

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  3. Re:Motivations by petabyte · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've never had ANY technology have that kind of impact on my development before, unless it was the reverse (making me 3 times LESS productive)

    You're talking about slashdot right? :)

  4. Re:Free for who? by cwhicks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somebody mod this guy down, he doesn't know what he is talking about. ;)

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  5. Re:grrr. by fitten · · Score: 4, Funny

    All declarative languages are fundamentally equal, just the syntax is different.

    Many of C# extra "features" are unnecessary "syntactic sugar",

    There was a decent "article" a few days ago that linked an "interview" with the head of the C# group who "talked" about some interesting things and "addressed" a few of the "syntatic sugar" discussions. It also addresses why a number of decisions were "made" contrary to the way Java does things and why those Java "things" were considered "bad".

    I'd like to see some "information" on what you think are "superfluous and harmful" in C#.

  6. What REALLY bothers me about Mono by plinius · · Score: 3, Funny
    Is that it's related to Herpes(TM) (factually true).

    Herpes is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.