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

On Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:57:24 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2026-01-05, 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.
>
> Ditto - and I'm too old to change now.  I'd rather spend what little
> time I have on having fun and maintaining my existing code base
> (including comprehensive home-brewed C libraries) rather than going
> through the software equivalent of moving to a foreign country.

The C changes over the years like being able to declare variables where
they are first used and single line comments were something I greeted with
"Hell yeah!" rather than "What CS PhD dreamed this crap up?"

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