Much ado about nothing: C# use in open source

[ Thanks to Sam Varghese for this link. ]

"Recent figures indicate that C# is the 10th language of choice when it comes to open source.

"Its use stands at - hold your breath - 1.24 percent, just one-hundredths of a percent more than assembly language.

"Mono, for the uninitiated, is an attempt by Miguel de Icaza, the co-founder of the GNOME desktop project and currently vice-president of Novell, to replicate parts of Microsoft's .NET development environment as an open source project."

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