On Friday 18 May 2007 06:11, Jerry Houston wrote:
> Now that I've finally gotten more involved with Linux, I'm looking
> forward to finding out what state mono is in. I subscribed to some mono
> mailing lists around the time it first got started, but after quite a
> while it seemed not to be going anywhere very fast. From comments I've
> read recently, that seems to have changed for the better.
I am a c/c++ programmer primarily... and an ardent lover of assembler,
just
for fun (the 32 bit flat model facilitated by linux has breathed a whole new
life into assembler for me, yasm lately).
I have had requests for server instalations of Django (written almost
exclusively in Python) and I have been forced to deal with of the mono apps.
So, I have been coming up to speed in both Python and Mono. At the on-set I
am tempted to say, "yet another object oriented language," and yet on the
other hand I am realizing that today folks are in the process of trying to
keep the good stuff of Grady Booch and Bjarne Stroustrup while simplifying
out the bad or obtuse stuff. So, OOp is "still" after all these years in a
state of flux.
Its good to hear that mono is improving... and that its open. I too
have
heard the rumors of M$ opening its specs (I mean maybe even its sources) for
the .NET stuff... but of course I feel like its a day late and a few billion
dollars short... (so I short on trust)... but I will not cast mono aside for
the sake of my sentiment against M$ perhaps until I have some more experience
with it and a little more time to see how some of the mono apps shake out in
the near future. I also feel a little differently this week having read the
OIN statement on their position with regard to the M$ patent portfolio. Up
till now I have been very reluctant to use *anything* that came directly or
indirectly out of Redmon... including mono. But, the safety zone seems to be
improving. I hope.
I would like to encourage you to share what you know in print... even
if you
don't teach anymore... you've got good things to say, and the younger gen can
benefit into the future by being able to share your experience coming up
through the birth of OO out of c/c++, smalltalk, etc. You might really
consider writing another book... seriously.
thanks for you insights
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Kind regards,
M Harris <><
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