Slashdot | Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop

Slashdot | Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop: "Re:C 'Dying', Scripting Languages, Cross Platform
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by Jellybob (597204) on Friday March 12, @04:58AM (#8541478)
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Mono is also write once, run anywhere - the .NET platform is designed to be cross platform (even if Microsoft were hesitant to make use of that).

I have written programs in C# on my desktop, compiled them with mcs (the c# compiler with mono), and then e-mailed it to a friend running Microsoft's .NET runtime on Windows, and it ran without any problems (obviously you have to make sure you don't use the Mono APIs if you're doing this).

To push it to further extremes, that person could then upload the same compiled file to their PDA, and *still* be able to run it, so long as they have the runtime installed.

How much more cross platform do you want?"