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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/10/2013 09:54 AM, Jay Lozier
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:1381413263.2095.5.camel@linux-3jah.site"
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<pre wrap="">NET is M$ only while Java, php, etc are platform independent. I do not
know much about Apple and Android programming but .NET code will not run
on them. If cross platform or tablet/smartphone development is important
I would look at languages that are supported cross platform and are
typically (or easily installed) on a device.</pre>
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Please do some basic research before speaking about such things.
This information is plain incorrect.<br>
<br>
There has been a high-quality CLR (a.k.a. ".NET") runtime available
for non-Microsoft platforms <i><b>from the very beginning</b></i>.
Microsoft itself developed implementations for Linux and BSD, and
has now even open-source some of those components.<br>
<br>
The Mono runtime is an excellent implementation and is very much
complete—there isn't a whole heck of a lot that you can't do on it.
Source (and binary) compatibility exists and functions for
everything I've tried.<br>
<br>
The GNU runtime (Portable.NET) is a little less complete, but it
works. Things that don't use the GUI work a lot better than things
that do, but it works well and implements both source and binary
compatibility with the reference Microsoft implementation.<br>
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Insofar as Apple's APIs, they are offspring of OpenStep, which is
itself an offspring of NeXTSTEP. It also has several different
implementations; the most complete one that I am aware of that is
not Apple's is from GNU. Source compatibility exists with care.<br>
<br>
Android is programmed using Java code and APIs (even though the
binary runtime is actually somewhat different). Android is
therefore source compatible with Java (to a degree).<br>
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— Mike<br>
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