[Ldsoss] Not really open source, but it's free...

[Jesse Stay]

Slide wrote:
> I've used mono (www.go-mono.com) on some production products. Mono is
> very stable and runs very well. I even like doing ASP.NET development
> on Linux with Apache and mod_mono (you can also use mod_aspdotnet on
> Windows with Apache and the MS .NET runtime). There is a PerlNET
> available from ActiveState in their Perl Dev Kit (obviously not open
> source though). IronPython is a complete implementation of the Python
> language in .NET and can even out perform the C version in some
> benchmarks. It has full access to the .NET libraries and you can write
> libraries in Python to be consumed by other .NET
> applications/libraries. IKVM is an implementation of the Java virtual
> machine written in .NET that can take a jar file or class file and
> create a .NET class library from it. There are some really cool tools
> being developed for .NET that I think can increase productivity if
> used correctly and in the correct place. 
I have a license to Perl.net and have played with it a bit.  Not bad, 
and especially good for a Perl programmer having a need to program in a 
Windows environment.  There's also a good book called "Programming PERL 
(scares me that they spelled it in all caps) in the .NET Environment" 
that is an excellent read if you want to learn more about it and .net in 
general as a Perl developer.  I think Activestate dropped support for 
Perl.net just recently though.

Jesse