Invisible wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>>> I'd venture to say C# also has an astounding amount of libraries (at 
>>> least, on the Windows platform ...) the base library for .NET is 
>>> pretty extensive, though not without limitations, but those can 
>>> easily be worked around. I don't know whether the base libraries for 
>>> Mono are as plentiful, as I only have very limited experience with Mono.
>>
>>> The drawback? It's not viewed as a high performance language.
>>
>>   And rather Windows-only.
> 
> Isn't that the whole point of the Mono project?
> 

I thought so. But the caveat is this:

Programs written to the MS .NET Framework, will not run under the Mono 
.NET Framework, and vice-versa. Though you can write software in C# 
using Mono as the framework, and have it run under Windows, and various 
Linux flavors.

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