It only took a Long Weekend

Here's a fun comment snippet I came across on Slashdot:

I have been told - on good word, the abstract code layer under .net was designed & written such that it could be written in a "long Microsoft weekend" (which I would interpret to be two or four calendar weeks as a conservative value).

I suppose that's why Mono only took a few weeks to implement ...

Published Tuesday, July 27, 2004 2:15 PM by Alex Papadimoulis

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Tuesday, July 27, 2004 2:21 PM by Scott Galloway

# re: It only took a Long Weekend

Well, when you think about it, it's possible that the very basic IL stuff only took a relatively short time...even though it's really important doesn't mean it's necessarily huge. Most of the work on MONO seems to be in the implementation of all the namespaces - the actual basic infrastructure (which I guess is derived from ROTOR) didn't seem to take that long...
Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:48 PM by Theologian

# re: It only took a Long Weekend

I have also heard stories about developing MONO over a long weekend at computer camp.

In fact, the developers must've stayed up late all weekend with MONO - because for the next few weeks they had trouble staying awake.
Friday, August 13, 2004 2:57 PM by blameMike

# re: It only took a Long Weekend

Interesting... I actually just heard Miguel De Icaza say that most of the MONO code was developed prior to the release of ROTOR.

Check out this week’s .NET Rocks for confirmation.

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