Lest anyone think we're alone...

[Karsten Wade]

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 05:42 -0600, Dan Smith wrote:

> . Suggest a non-C like language to many Nix people and they get this
> really sour look on their face.  

Just as a point of reference, when Sun made their recent announcement
about opening Java under the GPL, I saw a lot of interesting mailing
list traffic.  People who haven't looked Java since programming class in
University were saying, "Let's figure out how to get people like me up
to speed on Java."[1]  Some similar things for Mono, when that got
included in the distro.

There are more open minds out there than you'd think.  It is IMHO
opinion better to listen to them and put our energy into supporting
those people than anyone who has language-hate in their eyes. :)

- Karsten

[1] I opened this but haven't had anybody contributing yet:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/JavaProgramming

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