From: Paolo Molaro (lupus@debian.org)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 14:39:08 EST
On 03/25/02 Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > > language features that BOTH C++ and C# offer.
> >
> > Care to name a C# feature we don't support (or we don't plan to
> > support)? Actually, the runtime supports more features than C# the
> > language offers. But, yes, we are not done yet, we know that.
>
> I never said that you didn't or won't. You need to go reread what I
> wrote with a cool head, lupus. I said that Evolution was programmed
> using C with the GObject/GTKObject system instead of a language like C++
> or C# or Java and the Evolution's programming time would have been
> lower, probably, if they had used C#, C++, etc... If that much was
> unclear, I'm sorry.
Oh, it seemed to imply that that was how mono works (and it works that way
under the hood, like any other object system does): if that is the case, I
apologise for over-reacting.
Anyway, a runtime like the CLR doesn't get you only that: it gives you
garbage collection, automatic async invocation of methods and it lets you
plug-in components seamlessly. That is what enhances productivity a lot.
lupus
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