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Hi,

I'm going to skip the Perl vs. Python flame-bait and correct your one state=
ment.

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> Somebody told that C# and Objective C are good languages. They might be g=
ood, but they are proprietary, and not only that they are proprietary, but =
they need to be ran under platforms that cannot be used freely, so from the=
 freedom point of view, Perl, Ruby, Python and Java are the ways to go.

Neither of those are proprietary and can, in fact, be used freely. GNU
compiler compiles objective-c code with no problem and then there's
Mono for C# and .NET development on multiple platforms.

But if by proprietary you mean the libraries and APIs that complement
those languages, the it's worth noting that Mono implements most of
.NET framework and it is free. If you want "free" Cocoa APIs (or other
Obj-C frameworks) look into GnuSTEP.

Best regards,
alex.



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