Of course you don't have to run Windows to use .NET anymore as Mono http://www.go-mono.com has reached a fairly good level of completeness.

IMO .NET is quite a good development for Perl programmers as it emphasizes things that thing that Perl can do quite well such as XML and Web Services and de-emphasizes some Microsoftisms (such as DCOM) that are quite difficult to deal with properly in Perl, thus making interoperability between Perl programs running on non-MS systems and .NET applications a real possibility, whereas before it was always a struggle.

Also the regular expression syntax is as far as I can tell almost completely compatible with Perl's which has got to be a good thing for a Perl programmer who chooses (or is forced ) to learn C#.

/J\

Moved from reaped dup parent - dvergin 2003-07-03