XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 08:03:13 +0000, Pancho wrote:   
      
   > On 1/5/26 11:50, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >>         
   >>   
   >>      Install .NET on Linux   
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   >> Also:   
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   > C# is a lovely language, but isn't different enough from Java to make it   
   > worthwhile doing something with much less online support when using   
   > Linux.   
      
   C# is what Java should have been, I had hopes for Java in the late '90s   
   that were dashed when it became bloated and slow.   
      
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