The problem is that .NET doesn't really have any (perceived) decent support on non-Windows platforms. I really like the concept, but I don't have any decent libraries I can play with. Especially in my chosen language (perl). I don't think it's animosity so much as uninterested. -- Alan
I've used mono (www.go-mono.com) on some production products. Mono is very stable and runs very well. I even like doing ASP.NET development on Linux with Apache and mod_mono (you can also use mod_aspdotnet on Windows with Apache and the MS .NET runtime). There is a PerlNET available from ActiveState in their Perl Dev Kit (obviously not open source though). IronPython is a complete implementation of the Python language in .NET and can even out perform the C version in some benchmarks. It has full access to the .NET libraries and you can write libraries in Python to be consumed by other .NET applications/libraries. IKVM is an implementation of the Java virtual machine written in .NET that can take a jar file or class file and create a .NET class library from it. There are some really cool tools being developed for .NET that I think can increase productivity if used correctly and in the correct place. Alex _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
