A reference implementation isn't a standard, and all the languages you mentioned compile to.NET too (and more, including Java itself) as.NET was designed from the start to be language-agnostic.
Why was I modded offtopic? I was only reacting to people treating Groovy as the second coming of Java Christ when C# had all of these improvements since forever.
Why would they want to sue anyone for using Mono? The official runtime is already free, and they obviously don't care about people using it on other operating systems (see the official OSX Silverlight plugin). Also, suing anyone for Mono would ward people away from.NET by association.
C#'s spec is fine, Microsoft has a look-but-don't-use "shared source" implementation of the CLR, and officially supports Mono, which supports virtually everything people actually use. What more could you want?
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AT&T and SCO would like to have a word with you.
I do actually. Gentoo.
Linux is potentially patent encumbered. SCO tried to sue. See how that worked out for them?
That's true for C# too. The only iffy parts are the nonstandard libraries that are nonetheless in widespread use, like ADO.NET.
So it was a good idea to make GNU. Why not Mono?
And GNU is an AT&T trap, right?
That would be J#. C# and .NET are genuinely better.
GNU and GCC are just as much open source implementations of proprietary technology from convicted monopolists as Mono is. QFT
Why? There's probably a perfectly good evolutionary reason for dying of old age. It's just bad (?) for us as individuals.
GNOME was started by the same guy who started Mono (Miguel de Icaza).
A reference implementation isn't a standard, and all the languages you mentioned compile to .NET too (and more, including Java itself) as .NET was designed from the start to be language-agnostic.
What makes them think aliens even have anything in common with us? Read some Stanislav Lem for how that might not be true in the slightest.
I haven't a clue whats going on but reality's so wierd I've decided they've pulled the theory out of their asses!"
Fixed that for ya.
I don't think you know Johnny User very well.
I don't know dude, irrational decisions are characteristic of M$, and I'm just being healthily suspicious.
Slashdot in a nutshell right there.
Why was I modded offtopic? I was only reacting to people treating Groovy as the second coming of Java Christ when C# had all of these improvements since forever.
Why would they want to sue anyone for using Mono? The official runtime is already free, and they obviously don't care about people using it on other operating systems (see the official OSX Silverlight plugin). Also, suing anyone for Mono would ward people away from .NET by association.
And what strings would those be? If Microsoft really wanted to shoot themselves in the foot and sue their own customers, they would've done it by now.
Its bloat problem isn't Java, but its general clunkiness problem is.
The original demo didn't have evolution either, what it did have was a bit more realism.
C#'s spec is fine, Microsoft has a look-but-don't-use "shared source" implementation of the CLR, and officially supports Mono, which supports virtually everything people actually use. What more could you want?
...do anything that C# hasn't for a while now?
>You choose that because the client app needs only to run on Windows .NET for Mac and Mono would like to have a word with you.
Well that's working out just great for China's masses of drones, am I right?
Know any other type of audiophile?