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Today I purchased C# 3.0 Pocket Reference (O'Reilly Publishers).
In that book in the first para of the first page it is given that "The C# language is platform neutral, but it was written to work well with Microsoft .Net platform"
If I am not wrong, Platform Neutral mean that the softwares made from that language should run in all the OS(e.g.Mac, Windows,Linux etc.).
I know that this characteristic is being satisfied by Java but .Net has not yet been able to do that(Though MONO has made some progress in Linux).
Then what is the significance of that word "PLATFORM NEUTRAL" so far c# is concern?
Thanks in advance
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The C#-language itself is platform neutral like C and C++ are - you can implement a compiler et al for it on any platform.
The .Net platform and its associated libraries however, which it was designed to work well with, are not platform neutral in design - they are designed to work on windows, although Mono does compensate somewhat for that.
If you would write a C# program without using any features of any .Net-library it is guaranteed to be platform-independent - you can be sure it will run on any platform that has tools for C#... you just won't have a particularly useful program though ;)
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