[ale] Hello World - in C# - in Mono - in Ubuntu is done

[Justin Simms]

Ha ha!! Now that is a great way to put it! So, can anyone think of
something cool that could be written using mono that would be open
source?

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
> I'm sure many fine FOSS projects could be implemented in C#. That said,
> in terms of a career move, just know that with C# you are by and large
> fencing yourself inside the pay-to-play windows enterprise world. If
> that's where you want to work then be my guest. Enjoy the reboots. In
> contrast, Java (and yes I know there's little love for Java on this list
> so spare me) has much deeper and established inroads to FOSS and *nix
> platforms as well as windows. It seems to me even LAMP would be much
> more fertile ground career-wise.
>
> I once had a manager who, referring to microsoft, said something like
> "when you're dealing with an 800lb gorilla in the room it's best to play
> nice". To which I replied "Fine. Play nice when you must. Just don't
> forget that your well-being really depends on getting the hell out of
> that room." Because it doesn't matter how nice you play, sooner or later
> that gorilla's going to hump you.
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 19:45 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> While C# is closed, mono is open.
>>
>> I don't know the pro's and con's of the os, but being closed doesn't
>> seem to hold water.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:51 PM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I can't think of anything more short sighted than learning to program in
>> > a totally proprietary language, especially given that there are so many
>> > fully capable and liberated open source languages available whose
>> > designers don't try to handcuff you to proprietary API's and put
>> > daunting
>> > roadblocks in the way of cross platform compiling.
>> >
>> > In some assembly code languages, "#" is the NOT symbol, so even the
>> > name of the C# language is telling you NOT to use it!  :-)
>> >
>> > peace
>> > aaron
>> >
>> > On 2010/09/16, at 12:32 , Chris Fowler wrote:
>> >
>> >> You are making a great start.  Sending HTML email is the first step to
>> >> being a successful MS programmer :)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 11:14 -0400, Ron Frazier wrote:
>> >>> I have just completed my first Hello World program in C# in Mono in
>> >>> Ubuntu.  I even customized it for this group, as indicated by the
>> >>> image below.
>> >>>
>> >>>               hello world.png
>> >>>
>> >>> By this evening, I should have a 1 million object astronomical entity
>> >>> tracking system which can accept 2 million hits / second on a
>> >>> website.
>> >>> OK, I made that up, maybe I won't finish that today.  8-)
>> >>>
>> >>> Seriously, my goal is to be employable as a C# programmer within 6 mo
>> >>> to 1 year spending a few hours per day.  I spent several years
>> >>> programming Clipper for Delta Air Lines, so I've been through this
>> >>> before.  What I haven't done before is the object oriented stuff and
>> >>> the GUI stuff and the multi-threaded stuff and the web site stuff.
>> >>> So, I know there's a big learning curve.  I'd appreciate any help
>> >>> anyone familiar with C# is willing to give.
>> >>>
>> >>> I know C# is usually a Microsoft thing, but I understand that quite a
>> >>> bit of Linux development is using it too, and that it makes a good
>> >>> cross platform language.
>> >>>
>> >>> Sincerely,
>> >>>
>> >>> Ron
>> >>> --------------------------
>> >>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might
>> >>> want to
>> >>> call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate
>> >>> energy
>> >>> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new messages very
>> >>> quickly.)
>> >>>
>> >>> Ron Frazier
>> >>>
>> >>> 770-205-9422 (O)   Leave a message.
>> >>> linuxdude AT c3energy.com
>> >
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