Ah, ok, I'm sorry for my impulsive response. I may have implied a thing or two from following parts:
Subject: Removal of Mono -- What the hell? "It may be prudent to keep a weather eye open for the removal of mono on the horizon." -- As with the subject, this implies you want Mono removed. "Sure, we don't want Vala spoiling by mono" -- This, on the other hand, implies you consider Mono as something bad that would spoil Vala. "I'm not advocating the vala be able to compile C# code" -- You're suggesting it. Otherwise you would mention that possibility at all. Along with that, Vala and C# are different languages with different principles and different target audiences. People wanting to switch just for the purpose of not using Mono logically must be either stupid or mono-haters. Anyway. With the kind of things those anti-mono guys are writing lately, I may have switched into an "anti-anti-mono" mode a bit too early. Sorry about that. Just shows how these people spread hate among peaceful guys like me. :) Regarding your original post, there is really nothing to "keep a weather eye open" related to Mono. You can just look forward to a stable version and see it mature. Dne 26. červen 2009 13:48 Sam Liddicott <s...@liddicott.com> napsal(a): > * Jiří Zárevúcky wrote, On 26/06/09 12:28: >> Ah, another one of the anti-mono guys. Sigh... >> > > Ah, another one of those guys who sees anti-mono guys everywhere. > >> Let me tell you, that from the sole principle of how Vala works, it >> will never be possible to convert C# code in a mechanistic fashion. >> > > Of course it will, it just won't compile or run. > >> You could maybe try creating some sort of automatic converter, which >> wouldn't work anyway, as it would result in a lot of bugs, inferior >> performance and (in better case) memory leaks. > > You could try this too. I think I'll wait to see if there is a need. > >> Just the possibility of >> "Vala being able to compile C# code" is so ridiculous I wonder who >> came up with that. >> > > I've never heard the idea suggested, and I didn't suggest it. It seems > you are the one who came up with it. > > I wish you had read my message. In it I acknowledged some of these points. > > I think you read the message you thought I had written. > > But there will be some language features of C# which are not within the > vala philosphy or language direction but which might be supported and > thus making some migration easier; I merely suggest keeping an open eye > for these. > > I don't expect any mechanistically converted C# to "compile and work" > with Vala, but it could be valid vala, with the parts that need > re-working annotated. > >> Anyway. Why hating Mono? > > I don't hate mono (although I prefer Vala). I wrote a nice mono > application for controlling my USB experimenter board. > >> Mono is a great software platform and people >> will use it no matter what MS-haters say about it. > > Good for them. (And me, I'm one of them). > >> Get over it people. >> > > Get over what? I don't understand your attitude in this response! > > I merely advocated keeping a weather eye open in case we could help a > migration from mono. I don't advocate that we actually DO anything. > > Sam > >> 2009/6/26 Sam Liddicott <s...@liddicott.com>: >> >>> It may be prudent to keep a weather eye open for the removal of mono on >>> the horizon. >>> >>> Vala is excellent, and I prefer it to mono; however it may become >>> pricelessly important that mono code can be converted to vala in a >>> mechanistic fashion. >>> I'm talking about language features, not library dependencies and linkages. >>> >>> Sure, we don't want Vala spoiling by mono, and I'm not advocating the >>> vala be able to compile C# code; I'm not advocating anything specific... >>> >>> ..just to keep a weather eye open... >>> >>> [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keep_a_weather_eye_open] >>> >>> Sam >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Vala-list mailing list >>> Vala-list@gnome.org >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
