XPost: alt.folklore.computers
From: bowman@montana.com

On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 19:04:14 -0500, 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.

I was thinking about C++ on my walk today. Arduino sketches and other MCU
SDKs refer to C/C++.

#include 
#include 

#define led 12

RF24 radio(7, 8);
const byte addresses[][6] = {"00001", "00002"};
int angleValue = 0;
boolean buttonState = 0;


void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  radio.begin();
  radio.openWritingPipe(addresses[1]);
  radio.openReadingPipe(1, addresses[0]);
  radio.setPALevel(RF24_PA_MIN);
}

Obviously when you instantiate the RF24 objects and start calling class
methods that will use parameters passed in to the constructor, you're in
C++ land. However for the most part it's 'C with Classes' and very seldom
has to get into the C++ esoterica.

Arduino simplifies it by magically creating setup() and loop()  without
the boilerplate.  The Pico SDK documentation talks about C/C++ but I
haven't seen C++ being used much in the examples.

Anyway C++ is handy in small doses.

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