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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