On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:07:31 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> The language may be, but that doesn't mean the libraries are.  Building
>> cross-platform applications using C# isn't very easy to do if things
>> like Winforms aren't ported to the platforms in question.
> 
> Nah. You put a layer above it that abstracts out the OS-specific
> information. It's no harder to build cross-platform applications in an
> OOP language because of windowing than it is because of different file
> systems. Java managed it. Tcl managed it. Nobody needs to run X on
> Windows to support either of those.

And that may well be what was done, though I do understand it is a 
reimplementation, largely for performance reasons.  But I don't write C# 
code, I just read what Miguel de Icaza writes about it. :-)

Jim

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