Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Naughty =?UTF-8?B?Q+KZrw==?= Date: 5 Jan 2026 17:48:38 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <10j9a1l$1toj$1@gal.iecc.com> <10j9vvr$23cp$2@gal.iecc.com> <10jb0is$172cb$2@dont-email.me> <679q2mx7o4.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10jduat$22c54$1@dont-email.me> <10jelfq$2apo7$4@dont-email.me> <8pI6R.1243340$79B9.1051909@fx14.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 1kAuCLAHi2/u2Dqa/PkXAgOfEgrutDCMnykFGcTSoiZiK/BMTV Cancel-Lock: sha1:YIZczBGxKmiGa6h1lFI86h+YU2M= sha256:ROO2NwCHok5UQsHUuSttO59XGJYLdAsodKQPUmy4zG8= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80518 alt.folklore.computers:233195 On Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:57:24 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2026-01-05, c186282 wrote: > >> On 1/4/26 16:18, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:41:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>> >>>> Does C# qualify as a Microsoft proprietary language? Or are there >>>> implementations on OSes other than Windows (and compilers, either >>>> open source or available from other vendors)? >>> >>> The only implementation I’m aware of is Microsoft’s one built on top >>> of Dotnet. >>> >>> Dotnet itself is supposedly open-source and portable to some degree >>> now. There are reports of it running on Linux. >> >> That would be very end-around ... >> >> Maybe just to forget C# ... CPP is good enough. >> >> Actually, don't even like CPP ... plain 'C' has so far met all my >> needs. > > Ditto - and I'm too old to change now. I'd rather spend what little > time I have on having fun and maintaining my existing code base > (including comprehensive home-brewed C libraries) rather than going > through the software equivalent of moving to a foreign country. The C changes over the years like being able to declare variables where they are first used and single line comments were something I greeted with "Hell yeah!" rather than "What CS PhD dreamed this crap up?"