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Pronunciation: http://www.asusilc.net/scr101/les1/s1glas.htm "ch or tch as in: church, fetch, pronounced softer than the English sound"
I'd say it's more like 'ci' (sounds closer to 'ty') in Italian 'ciao' and less like 'ch' in 'change'.
This is a really interesting project. However... It's licensed under GPLv3 -- in my experience, that's an instant turnoff for most .NET (C#/F#/VB.NET) developers. If you changed the license to something like Apache 2.0, I think you'd get much more interest; not only new users, but new contributors too.
What's wrong with GPLv3? I thought the only thing that changed from v2 was preventing tivotization?
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Almost all other languages have ASCII names. How do you think South Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, etc refer to them? They figured it out, just like you would, if you wanted to.
The name of something makes a big difference in the USA though. If it sounds ridiculous or has a non-obvious pronunciation, people won't take it seriously. Rationalize all you want...the issue makes it a non-starter for many people.
That's one thing brainfuck didn't get right. Even they couldn't predict how incredibly stupid programming language naming would become :)
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What's wrong with GPLv3? I thought the only thing that changed from v2 was preventing tivotization?
I think he means commercial use in closed-source projects. So it's not v2 vs v3, but GPL vs Apache or MIT.
Most -- nearly all -- major open-source projects written in C# (or other .NET languages) are permissively licensed. Yes, that means people could just grab the code and use it in their own closed-source projects without giving back; but, as far as I've seen, most devs are happy to contribute back to the projects they use in whatever way they can.
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C# is nicer than c, and writing bindings for c libraries in other languages is not fun.
I would say that I like C++ more than I like C#. C and C# are entirely different beasts.
Great idea, but why another new language? Why not just pick a subset of C# ? (or Java, or D, but subjectively speaking, C# is the most "friendly" language from that list)
It is a subset of C#. And giving that subset a name is much easier than talking about »that subset of C# that compiles cleanly to Java, D, Perl and C«.
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Except when the name is Ć.
Cee acute? Doesn't strike me as that horrible.
This is a really interesting project. However... It's licensed under GPLv3 -- in my experience, that's an instant turnoff for most .NET (C#/F#/VB.NET) developers. If you changed the license to something like Apache 2.0, I think you'd get much more interest; not only new users, but new contributors too.
What's wrong with GPLv3? I thought the only thing that changed from v2 was preventing tivotization?