On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Wesley Parish wrote:
But I could make a presentation on the value of cross-platform tools, given that Mono on z/Linux and Linux/390 is actually a hot topic in certain quarters! ;)
Careful, my impression of the Softies is that they actually like their Visual Gluey IDE, Gluey Builder & Framework. (Don't have to think) ie. Mono may look like a broken version of Scary Nasty C# without the Good Stuff to them.
A tiny part of power and appeal of OSS is that mono exists, the main part lies in the vast abundant richness and availability of other tools, the philosophy and aesthetic that permits easy integration of all these tools, and the conceptual power behind them.
P.S. What do you expect? ;) I've always got my hands in something, my foot embedded in my mouth, and ... <;^)
Wow! And I thought you were into mainframe heavy metal type computing, and now I find you are an embedded programmer like the rest of us... :-))
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