Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Feb 2008 15:08 UTC, submitted by masalinger
A huge 'discussion' took place on the desktop-devel mailing list of the GNOME project about a possible replacement for TomBoy, the Wiki-like note taking application-thing-program-utility written in Mono - it being written in Mono was the prime reason for the whole debate, which started here, and only got considerably nastier later on. "It would seem that lately there are a lot of FUD-spreading trolls crawling out of the woodwork trying to frighten people into thinking that GNOME somehow depends on Mono. Let's take a look at their most widely repeated claims."
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2005-07-20
"If it can be done in C#, it can be done much better in C or C++. C# is like "C++ for Dummies". If you can't handle thinking about pointers and memory management, you shouldn't be writing application code."
I can be more arrogant that you. If it can be done in C/C++, it can be done much better in assembler. C/C++ is like "Assembler for Dummies". If you can't handle thinking about machine instructions and memory allocation, you shouldn't be writing application code.
You twit