[ale] best cross platform development evironment

[Jim Kinney]

.NET is not a viable option as it's legal status makes it's cross-platform
nature very tenuous.

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:09 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> You know I'm no newbie to the list. In fact, it's the constant use of
> these names on this list that has made form my opinion. That is,
> anyone who has to denigrate a company with a cutesy name is merely
> opposing whatever suggestion/topic/etc. because of that company. They
> don't bother to consider the facts, only their held opinion.
>
> The fact is, I don't care for MS either. But that wasn't the question.
> I answered the question and it was renounced, not by the questioner,
> but by those who have to be snarky about MS whenever they get the
> chance.
>
> This isn't about embracing anyone or anything. I'm just tired of this
> bullshit infesting simple threads for the sake of doing so. Notice
> that none of the replies about whether or not .Net is a viable option
> have been about anything worthwhile. They've just been about fallacies
> proven incorrect because some people can't get over the fact that MS
> created the easiest answer to the question.
>
> On Monday, November 8, 2010, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:13 AM, James Sumners wrote:
> >
> >> I choose to ignore the opinions of people who feel the need to make up
> >> cutesy names for things/people they don't like.
> >
> > You haven't been around here very long, have you?  That happens MULTIPLE
> times a day around here.  Many of us have been referring to:
> >
> > M$
> > Microsquash
> > Microsquish
> > Microshaft
> > Winders
> > Winblows
> >
> >
> > for years.  In fact, it is that very distaste for that very OS that many
> of us are here.  Sure, some of the newer folks may have gone "features"
> recently, but when many of us got into this whole Linux thing, it was to
> escape Microsquawk.
> >
> > Don't come on a Linux list and expect wholehearted embrace of the very
> company that turned many of us to Linux in the first place.
> >
> > Lighten up.
> >
> >
> >
> > #!/jerald
> > Linux User #183003
> > Ubuntu User #32648
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> --
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>
> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
> CH:D 59
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James P. Kinney III
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