But at the same time, if developers are targeting.NET under the illusion that they'll get easy portability, then there are probably better solutions. QT comes to mind, not to mention Java.
At that point, what's the advantage to using an interpreted language over a nice C++ framework like QT?
I don't have to recompile and maintain compilers for as many systems as I want to port to? I can stay in my preferred environment for developing the software and just distribute to the other platforms?
Actually, the street can be as two-way as you'd like.
The problem with.NET code written on Windows not running under Mono (presuming compatible versions of.NET) is when the developer goes outside the bounds of.NET and uses p/invoke to hit native libraries.
This, of course, can work both ways.
I'm running a site for a local soccer club. The site is hosted at dreamhost and they've just announced that they are dropping all forwards to Comcast because of being blocked by them and months of being unable to actually get any replies from contact attempts.
This matters to me only because I have "vanity" addresses set up (president@soccerclub.com, etc) which forward to their real email. I have them set up for more than vanity reasons, of course. About two weeks ago the same thing happened with AOL - that caught another 3 or 4 people.
I'm not sure what can be done about it (people can use the web interface to read mail, but I wasn't trying to make it more difficult when I set all this stuff up.)
I think that the moon will be settled the same way Australia was - after all, what was the cost (in current currency) of deporting all those "undesirables" away from "civilization" (hopefully, quoting both terms the ire from the respective groups will cancel:) in the currency of the time.
Look at what it costs to build a prison now - and where prisons are going because no one wants one in their neighborhood.
With any luck the outcome will be as good as the last instantiation of this idea.
I had trouble finding the bill with just the above information (ie, a search for 786 on http://senate.gov found nothing). I found it currently identified as S.786.IS with the title "National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005".
Here's a link to the bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:1:./tem p/~c1094gbzVv::
Maybe this is old news to most of you, but I thought I'd try to help the people that are new at it (like me, obviously.)
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But at the same time, if developers are targeting .NET under the illusion that they'll get easy portability, then there are probably better solutions. QT comes to mind, not to mention Java.
At that point, what's the advantage to using an interpreted language over a nice C++ framework like QT?
I don't have to recompile and maintain compilers for as many systems as I want to port to? I can stay in my preferred environment for developing the software and just distribute to the other platforms?
Seem like good reasons to me
Actually, the street can be as two-way as you'd like. The problem with .NET code written on Windows not running under Mono (presuming compatible versions of .NET) is when the developer goes outside the bounds of .NET and uses p/invoke to hit native libraries.
This, of course, can work both ways.
I'm running a site for a local soccer club. The site is hosted at dreamhost and they've just announced that they are dropping all forwards to Comcast because of being blocked by them and months of being unable to actually get any replies from contact attempts. This matters to me only because I have "vanity" addresses set up (president@soccerclub.com, etc) which forward to their real email. I have them set up for more than vanity reasons, of course. About two weeks ago the same thing happened with AOL - that caught another 3 or 4 people. I'm not sure what can be done about it (people can use the web interface to read mail, but I wasn't trying to make it more difficult when I set all this stuff up.)
I think that the moon will be settled the same way Australia was - after all, what was the cost (in current currency) of deporting all those "undesirables" away from "civilization" (hopefully, quoting both terms the ire from the respective groups will cancel :) in the currency of the time.
Look at what it costs to build a prison now - and where prisons are going because no one wants one in their neighborhood.
With any luck the outcome will be as good as the last instantiation of this idea.
I had trouble finding the bill with just the above information (ie, a search for 786 on http://senate.gov found nothing). I found it currently identified as S.786.IS with the title "National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005". Here's a link to the bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:1:./tem p/~c1094gbzVv::
Maybe this is old news to most of you, but I thought I'd try to help the people that are new at it (like me, obviously.)