September 11, 2004

This is progress?

Just saw an arti­cle on Mono over at Site­point, and I stopped read­ing after the req­ui­site. Hello World sample to write this entry (I’ll finish it later…).

Let’s com­pare, shall we…

Mono: public class Hel­loWorld { static void Main() { System.Console.WriteLine(“Hello World!”); } }

Java: class Hel­loWorl­dApp { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(“Hello World!”); } }

What’s all the buzz about? Where’s the beef improve­ment?

I can have quasi-​open-​source syn­tac­tic crufty­ness from Sun, or open-​source crufty­ness from Mono, (but doesn’t it feel weird to write in a lan­guage built by some­one decidely un-open source).

Isn’t it time we move on?

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