Just Curious

[Rev. Michael L. Burns]

I have noticed in several adds for Visual Studio.Net that it contains 20 plus programing languages. What are they?

Mike

[hellswraith]

Microsoft has made it to where vendors can let their languages run with .Net. There are already a lot of languages that can be used with .Net, and more coming.

To kind of understand better, check what borland is doing: http://www.borland.com/net/

[Cander]

A few Off the top of my head:

Perl
Eiffel
Cobol
VB
C#
C++
J#

I think there is a full list somewhere on microsofts .net site

msdn.microsoft.com/net

[Cander]

Originally posted by hellswraith
Microsoft has made it to where vendors can let their languages run with .Net. There are already a lot of languages that can be used with .Net, and more coming.

To kind of understand better, check what borland is doing: http://www.borland.com/net/

Borland supporting .NET is going to be a major contributer to .NET's acceptance. It will make more developers stand up and notice. You have a choice..Lock yourself into 1 language that wont play well with other languages, or have a choice of virtually every major programming language that can easily interoperate with any other language!!! Hmmm hard choice aye?

Just imagine the abudance of tools we will have despite what language you use. Component written in Delphi .NET? Sure you can use it in VB .NET. It will be great. How many times have you searched for that great third party component only to find it doesnt work with your language? It has happened to me so oftern..No more.....Yah!!

The only hurdle now is to see how much of a reality cross platform .NET frameworks will become. When the time comes where these projects like Mono are fully operational, Sun can kiss Java's increasing dominance goodbye.