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From: Darren New
Subject: Mono out-.NETs Microsoft
Date: 8 Oct 2010 13:14:07
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/10/mono-28-released-with-full-support-for-c-40.ars

Very cool.

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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Mono out-.NETs Microsoft
Date: 8 Oct 2010 13:59:14
Message: <4caf5bf2$1@news.povray.org>
On 08/10/2010 6:14 PM, Darren New wrote:
>
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/10/mono-28-released-with-full-support-for-c-40.ars
>
>
> Very cool.
>

Could be handy, well spotted. :-D

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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Mono out-.NETs Microsoft
Date: 8 Oct 2010 17:13:28
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Darren New escreveu:
>
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/10/mono-28-released-with-full-support-for-c-40.ars


until the headline tomorrow reads:  "Microsoft releases C# 5.0"

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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Mono out-.NETs Microsoft
Date: 8 Oct 2010 17:50:35
Message: <4caf922b$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Darren New escreveu:
>>
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/10/mono-28-released-with-full-support-for-c-40.ars

> 
> 
> until the headline tomorrow reads:  "Microsoft releases C# 5.0"

Actually, when I first read this, I thought Mono had released C# 5.0, which 
is why I gave it the subject-line I did.

However, each version of C# really does stand on its own. If you just avoid 
the 5.0 stuff until Mono catches up, you're good. It's not like people 
aren't using 10-year-old C standards.
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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Mono out-.NETs Microsoft
Date: 8 Oct 2010 23:00:01
Message: <web.4cafda54edf7bad6c4a3ad910@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > Darren New escreveu:
> >>
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/10/mono-28-released-with-full-support-for-c-40.ars
> >
> >
> > until the headline tomorrow reads:  "Microsoft releases C# 5.0"
>
> Actually, when I first read this, I thought Mono had released C# 5.0, which
> is why I gave it the subject-line I did.

a-ha!  Still, I heard they out-.NETed Microsoft a bit by bringing SSE SIMD
vector operations, no?

> However, each version of C# really does stand on its own. If you just avoid
> the 5.0 stuff until Mono catches up, you're good. It's not like people
> aren't using 10-year-old C standards.

....with modern libs.  Better than using essentially same old libs with a new
incompatible lang every two years or so for the sake of innovation -- as if
absorbing old features from more bright languages counts as innovation...


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Mono out-.NETs Microsoft
Date: 9 Oct 2010 00:38:37
Message: <4caff1cd$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> a-ha!  Still, I heard they out-.NETed Microsoft a bit by bringing SSE SIMD
> vector operations, no?

I don't know. I know that they did the silly thing and asked the application 
programmer to make the decision instead of the compiler. :-) How that 
manages to be at the application source-code level for C# I can't imagine. I 
suspect it's interacting with the AOT compilation instead of (for some 
reason) being a compiler command-line switch or something.

>> However, each version of C# really does stand on its own. If you just avoid
>> the 5.0 stuff until Mono catches up, you're good. It's not like people
>> aren't using 10-year-old C standards.
> 
> ....with modern libs.  

Even without modern libs. Or at least not modern standard libs.  I'm saying 
that using C# 4.0 isn't really a problem for people writing their own code, 
even when C# 5.0 comes out. Why would it be?

> Better than using essentially same old libs with a new
> incompatible lang every two years or so for the sake of innovation -- as if
> absorbing old features from more bright languages counts as innovation...

Here, you forgot this:

</rantflame>

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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Mono out-.NETs Microsoft
Date: 9 Oct 2010 12:40:01
Message: <web.4cb09a0cedf7bad6c4a3ad910@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Here, you forgot this:
>
> </rantflame>

yes, thanks.  I'm always messing up with tags...


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