[ale] Hello World - in C# - in Mono - in Ubuntu is done

[Tim Watts]

I'm sure many fine FOSS projects could be implemented in C#. That said,
in terms of a career move, just know that with C# you are by and large
fencing yourself inside the pay-to-play windows enterprise world. If
that's where you want to work then be my guest. Enjoy the reboots. In
contrast, Java (and yes I know there's little love for Java on this list
so spare me) has much deeper and established inroads to FOSS and *nix
platforms as well as windows. It seems to me even LAMP would be much
more fertile ground career-wise.

I once had a manager who, referring to microsoft, said something like
"when you're dealing with an 800lb gorilla in the room it's best to play
nice". To which I replied "Fine. Play nice when you must. Just don't
forget that your well-being really depends on getting the hell out of
that room." Because it doesn't matter how nice you play, sooner or later
that gorilla's going to hump you.


On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 19:45 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> While C# is closed, mono is open.
> 
> I don't know the pro's and con's of the os, but being closed doesn't
> seem to hold water.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:51 PM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I can't think of anything more short sighted than learning to program in
> > a totally proprietary language, especially given that there are so many
> > fully capable and liberated open source languages available whose
> > designers don't try to handcuff you to proprietary API's and put
> > daunting
> > roadblocks in the way of cross platform compiling.
> >
> > In some assembly code languages, "#" is the NOT symbol, so even the
> > name of the C# language is telling you NOT to use it!  :-)
> >
> > peace
> > aaron
> >
> > On 2010/09/16, at 12:32 , Chris Fowler wrote:
> >
> >> You are making a great start.  Sending HTML email is the first step to
> >> being a successful MS programmer :)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 11:14 -0400, Ron Frazier wrote:
> >>> I have just completed my first Hello World program in C# in Mono in
> >>> Ubuntu.  I even customized it for this group, as indicated by the
> >>> image below.
> >>>
> >>>               hello world.png
> >>>
> >>> By this evening, I should have a 1 million object astronomical entity
> >>> tracking system which can accept 2 million hits / second on a
> >>> website.
> >>> OK, I made that up, maybe I won't finish that today.  8-)
> >>>
> >>> Seriously, my goal is to be employable as a C# programmer within 6 mo
> >>> to 1 year spending a few hours per day.  I spent several years
> >>> programming Clipper for Delta Air Lines, so I've been through this
> >>> before.  What I haven't done before is the object oriented stuff and
> >>> the GUI stuff and the multi-threaded stuff and the web site stuff.
> >>> So, I know there's a big learning curve.  I'd appreciate any help
> >>> anyone familiar with C# is willing to give.
> >>>
> >>> I know C# is usually a Microsoft thing, but I understand that quite a
> >>> bit of Linux development is using it too, and that it makes a good
> >>> cross platform language.
> >>>
> >>> Sincerely,
> >>>
> >>> Ron
> >>> --------------------------
> >>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might
> >>> want to
> >>> call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate
> >>> energy
> >>> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new messages very
> >>> quickly.)
> >>>
> >>> Ron Frazier
> >>>
> >>> 770-205-9422 (O)   Leave a message.
> >>> linuxdude AT c3energy.com
> >
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