On 03/25/02 Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > Whatever it is, I know that Miguels rant about Ximian's reasoning for
> > Mono (the massive time spent on Evolution development - I forget the
> > number, but it was a factor >10 over what they'd expected) is starting
> > to get to me.
> 
> FWIW, C# or Java isn't going to be much better. In fact, no programming
> language is a godsend and will make all of our work easy and make all of
> our bugs go away. Mono will be better for Evolution, probably, but you
> have to consider that these guys are using a self-created object
> heirarchy based on C and structs-as-vtables, without many of the

FYI C++ works in the same way, with structs as vtables, only you
didn't check a C++ compiler sources to see how it works.

> language features that BOTH C++ and C# offer.

Care to name a C# feature we don't support (or we don't plan to
support)? Actually, the runtime supports more features than C# the
language offers. But, yes, we are not done yet, we know that.

lupus

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