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Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop
Edd Dumbill writes "Miguel de Icaza and the Mono team recently hosted a two day open meeting in Boston. O'Reilly have just published
my report of the meeting. Highlights include
Miguel's view that 'C is dead!' and the Mono approach
to dealing with Microsoft patents on .NET."
The more he slides under Microsoft's spell, the more I distrust his pronouncements. It's as if he thinks he alone has discovered the magic potion that will allow him to befriend Microsoft with groveling and flattery such that they will actually respect him and not pull the rug out from under him. Why he should be the one exception in all their history is beyond me.
I have pretty much come to the conclusion that if Miguel says it is so, it ain't.
Infuriate left and right
These people want to make Unix into a bad version of Windows.
I use shell commands for file management. I don't trust binary and opaque protocols.
Gnome is crap. Windows is crap. CORBA is crap. COM+ is crap.
Lusers who won't learn suck. People who cater to lusers who won't learn suck. People who think being popular is better than being good suck. People who copy inferior paradigms because they are more popular suck ass.
Icons aren't any easier than shell commands. Lusers can't figure out shell commands. Lusers can't figure out the fucking icons and folders either and you know it. You might as well get rid of that crap and quit pretending. It's much easier to tell the lusers what to type instead of which illiterate little cute little fucking pictures to click on ("Do I use the right mouse button again? Or the left?" BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! "DIE, LUSER!")
Miguel, Gnome fans, KDE fans, Microsoft and their entire horde of lusers and sycophants all suck. They are a bunch of top-posting, HTML-mailing, file-losing, mouse-clicking, virus-spreading, Bonzai-buddy-downloading, binary-document-and-protocol using, drooling, XML-abusing, idiots who would rather drown their own grandmothers than admit that their giant, unstable, digital house of cards isn't good for much else than Solitaire, Excel, and job-security. Oh yeah, and as a very expensive and unstable platform on which to run a terminal emulator so they can use a REAL FUCKING COMPUTER!!!
He wrote he used it a few months. In fact so did I and I came to exactly the same conclusion. He is not flaming but gave some very valid comments on C#.
Please, you learn both Java and C# and you MUST come to the same conclusion: C# is nothing more than a bastardized Java with some "instant short term gratification" features thrown in, at the cost of a loss in consistency and qualtity on the whole.
Overrated when it was scored at 1 to start with?
Seriously, we need to do away with the lack of accountability of the "overrated" mod. The parent, an insightful and on-topic post, was modded overrated by some C-bigot moderator on crack. Too bad you can't get those on metamod...
Disclaimer: IANAL. This post is, however, legal advice, and creates an attorney-client relationship.
First I thought, "What the hell is he saying. Of course it goes to an instance of the class system. What does he think all those 'final' and 'static' keywords stand for?" Then I decided to test it. I was amazed that this worked, and without even a warning!
String Integer = new String("Hello");
System.out.print(Integer);
Sorry, but you still don't understand. "out" is just a final static variable that happens to be in the class "System". "System.out" actually holds values of type "java.io.PrintStream". You can even change the code that gets invoked when you call "System.out.print" by using "System.setOut". I doubt java.lang.System ever gets instantiated (its existence just attests to another design stupidity in Java).
in my life God comes first.... but Linux is pretty high after that
Francis Smit