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

[Justin Simms]

That was for the 800lb gorilla comment, btw. We should really have a
channel on irc or something. These threads get quote unwieldy....

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Justin Simms <justin.simms at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
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