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: 6 Jan 2026 19:11:15 GMT Lines: 31 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> <10jg8j0$2pmmq$6@dont-email.me> <10jifk3$3juv8$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net WVAxMPr3VKhlI9gIwrFDqw7JcFYgUbw8PamKSoqV2wyS181OaH Cancel-Lock: sha1:qrRpIlcBu62H32LhNzHcuAWE+2g= sha256:ZZTq+ka9vvZTvScinu4rX0GdiQb+xw5N9vzr7Xp/M6k= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80606 alt.folklore.computers:233276 On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 08:03:13 +0000, Pancho wrote: > On 1/5/26 11:50, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote this post by blinking in Morse code: >> >>> 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. >> >> >> >> Install .NET on Linux >> >> Also: >> >> >> > C# is a lovely language, but isn't different enough from Java to make it > worthwhile doing something with much less online support when using > Linux. C# is what Java should have been, I had hopes for Java in the late '90s that were dashed when it became bloated and slow.