"One Bullet is never enough" Paper

[Patrick]

"phil hunt" <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> To the best of my knowledge(*), C# is the only high-level language
> designed explicitly to lock programmers in to a vendor.

Submitting the language to a standards body and opening it up to other
implementors is hardly a clever way to lock programmers into a specific
vendor.

C# has been standardised by ECMA, which leaves anyone free to provide their
own implementation. http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ecma-334.htm

At least one non-Microsoft implementation of C# already exists:
http://www.go-mono.org