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Race to Linux Project Announced

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hurry-up-and-blur-the-lines-so-we-can-have-a-choice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Internetnews.com The Race to Linux project was announced Wednesday at the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. The challenge: port an existing ASP.NET application to Linux using any cross-platform tool of choice, including Mono, Grasshopper and PHP. (Mainsoft offers tools that let Visual Studio users build applications that run natively in the Unix, J2EE and Linux environments.) Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft stated: 'Linux is too big and ubiquitous to ignore.'"

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  1. FogCreek should enter by discordja · · Score: 2, Informative

    They already have an ASP to PHP compiler which they use to build their FogBugz software. Note this is not available to the general public, just bringing it up in relation to the topic.

    Granted, I don't know if it's the .NET environment to PHP but I'd wager it probably is knowing FogCreek.

    I always find Joel on Software to be an enjoyable read.

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    1. Re:FogCreek should enter by mrRay720 · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, as far as I'm aware, it's original ASP to PHP. Since both are plain scripting it's (relatively) easy, but going from ASP.NET to PHP would be completely different.

      Reading about it on JoS a while ago, he says that it's not a general converter either - it only works because they follow certain strict rules when coding, that the translator can take advantage of. Let is loose on masses of random code written any which way and you'd probably find bad things happen.

      A general purpose translator for this sort of thing is 5% of the work. The other 95% of the effort is in getting all of the corner cases and other oddities working right. Joel got around this by skipping the 2nd 95% and just coding in a certain manner.

  2. Re:I wonder when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sun already did this.

    It's called Java.