XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:57:24 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-01-05, c186282  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/4/26 16:18, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:41:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Does C# qualify as a Microsoft proprietary language? Or are there   
   >>>> implementations on OSes other than Windows (and compilers, either   
   >>>> open source or available from other vendors)?   
   >>>   
   >>> The only implementation I’m aware of is Microsoft’s one built on top   
   >>> of Dotnet.   
   >>>   
   >>> Dotnet itself is supposedly open-source and portable to some degree   
   >>> now. There are reports of it running on Linux.   
   >>   
   >>    That would be very end-around ...   
   >>   
   >>    Maybe just to forget C# ... CPP is good enough.   
   >>   
   >>    Actually, don't even like CPP ... plain 'C' has so far met all my   
   >>    needs.   
   >   
   > Ditto - and I'm too old to change now.  I'd rather spend what little   
   > time I have on having fun and maintaining my existing code base   
   > (including comprehensive home-brewed C libraries) rather than going   
   > through the software equivalent of moving to a foreign country.   
      
   The C changes over the years like being able to declare variables where   
   they are first used and single line comments were something I greeted with   
   "Hell yeah!" rather than "What CS PhD dreamed this crap up?"   
      
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