On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:08, John Carter wrote: > 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.
Well, FWIW, there's Sharpdevelop, an open source C# IDE, and a Mono IDE as well. As far as I know, DotGNU hasn't bothered with an IDE. > > 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. That one of the things I love about Free/Libre Open Source Software. You can start off with one thing, adapt it for your own needs, and then someone can pick it up down the line and use it and a few other things to come up with something totally different. And all that may be necessary is writing a few glue functions and procedures. > > > 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... :-)) I've always been a heavy metal freak! I just don't look it! ;) > > > Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish > > The future is upon us, space travel is closer and more real than it has > ever been, and authors imagining exciting and desirable "hard sci/fi" > near-term futures have almost vanished. > > Pity. Indeed. My own efforts have been more along the lines of "Hard Soft Science", ie, primatology, anthropology, linguistics, etc. I've had some extremely positive feedback on the level of detail I put into my therianthropes - beast-humans - which started off as some sort of werewolves, much to my disgust. Werewolves are two-a-penny - I then remodelled them after spotted hyenas. I wish I could've put the same detail into my portrayal of Alpha Centauri, the relevant solar system. Still, there aren't many female characters in fiction who rejoice in the name of Akhreich - "Bone Cruncher"! And who are being trained as midwife-chieftainess. Wesley Parish > > > Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? > > You ask, what is the most important thing? > > Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. > > I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. > > Characterizing People as Non-Linear, First-Order Components in Software > Development - Alistair Cockburn > http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/cpanfocisd/characterizingpeopl >easnonlinear.html > > > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > New Zealand > > Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. > > "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong > later." > > From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
