Darren New wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
As for C#, it's Microsoft, and it's not GPL/BSD.
Errrr, not quite. The spec is ECMA
Which means the somebody paid a bunch of money. Nothing more.
Come back when it's an ANSI or ISO spec. IIRC, M$ pulled it out of ISO
certification because they were demanding a patent grant.
the code is available GPL, and of course there's a lot of MS-specific
libraries available
Which, of course, you have to use to be interoperable with .Net.
Sorry. Pass.
If you *are* using Windows, C# is a pretty nice system. If you're *not*
using Windows, it's still a pretty nice language that is kind of like
Java, done right. :-)
You assessment is correct. I still refuse to use it *on principle*.
-a
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