[Bioperl-l] Re: I want to construct BioC#. Can you help me?

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Heikki" == Heikki Lehvaslaiho <heikki at nildram.co.uk> writes:

  Heikki> That principle leads us to a really big problem that I can
  Heikki> see your project: The C# programming language is not open
  Heikki> source and it is bound to closed operating system. For a new
  Heikki> programming language to take hold is has to have some
  Heikki> quality which makes people want to start using it. Most of
  Heikki> bioinformatics is currently done using *NIX operating
  Heikki> systems. I can not see any reason why MSWindows would
  Heikki> quickly become the OS of choice for bioinformatics. Quite
  Heikki> the contrary as a matter of fact.



I think that you are confusing C# and .Net. I've not had any
experience of this myself, but a good friend of mine does all of his
development in C# on windows (because he likes the development
environment), and then runs them all on linux. Mono, the GCC front end
for C# works perfectly well I'm told. 

The practical upshot of all this is that C# is more open source than
Java. Of course what bioC# would add to the situation that
bioperl/java/python/add other language here, does not already provide
I'm less sure of.

Right back to lurking. 

Phil