Deafening [LWN.net]

Deafening

Posted Nov 9, 2006 22:36 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Deafening by dskoll
Parent article: Novell Releases Mono 1.2 With Enhanced Support for .NET on Linux

Who cares?

Any application developer or corporate body that has a number of programmers who have expertese in Windows, but not in Linux, and would like to switch systems from Windows to Linux.

Mono enables people to write fairly complex applications for Linux who otherwise have no prior experiance with Linux.

Beleive you me, programmers who understand how to program with C#/.NET are much much much easier to come by then programmers who are experts at Linux C and Gnome or C++ and QT.

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Deafening

Posted Nov 10, 2006 13:06 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Beleive you me, programmers who understand how to program with C#/.NET are much much much easier to come by then programmers who are experts at Linux C and Gnome or C++ and QT.

Over the last 10 years, I've been in the position to hire (and alas, fire) programmers. It has been my experience that the "easier to come by" programmers are worth about what you'd expect. In other words: Not much.

Deafening

Posted Nov 10, 2006 13:36 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Quite true. I also been in the same position and now my position is clear: either peson knows how to program - and then he can program in C/GObject, C++/Qt, Java or C#/Mono. Just give him week or two to learn new language. Or he does not know how to do this and then he can not write good programs in any language.

P.S. Haskell, OCaml and other functional languages are somewhat different - it's possible to be good C# prohrammer and poor Haskell programmer (or vice versa). But switch from C# to Java (or even to C/GObject) ? Don't make me laugh...