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Picture Perfect and in Tune

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2005-05-25 08:23. Mono
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I've taken the last month off from fiddling with new distros, and have instead just spent time enjoying the Ubuntu experience. It's amazing what you find time for when you're not fiddling with the command line to troubleshoot some obscure problem with your latest Linux testbed. One thing I've gotten around to is exploring the collection of Free Software available via the Ubuntu package repositories. I've fallen in love with two apps in particular: Muine is my new music player of choice, and F-Spot is without a doubt the neatest digital photo organizer I've ever used.

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Sure, C# looks really great c

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-05-26 08:58.

Sure, C# looks really great compared to C, and so does Java. But they both look bloody awful compared to a lot of other languages invented in the 35 years or so since C. It's a shame that all that effort went into Mono when it would have been better spent on Smalltalk, OCaml or some other language. Imagine if all that effort had gone into Slate. We would have a truly kick-ass development environment by now, instead of Linux now trailing far behind Windows/VisualStudio/ReSharper for C# development, and Linux programmers still finding it better than what they're used ot.

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