11.1. RDF and C#

When Microsoft went to its new .NET architecture, one of the products released with the architecture was the Common Language Runtime (CLR), a programming language platform capable of supporting different programming languages. The first language released was C#, a hybrid between C++ and Java.

If you're running Linux, you don't need .NET to compile C# code; you can also compile the code using the C# compiler provided with Mono, an open source CLR alternative. Download Mono at Ximian's Mono site, http://www.go-mono.com/.