I've been thinking about it...Perhaps we shouldn't port POI over to C#, perhaps we should utilize the full power of .NET and port it to all 7-13 languages it supports currently! Meaning
POIFS = VB.NET HSSF = C# HPSF = PERL.NET HDF = J# I mean, thats one degree of separation! Think of all the advantages learning all of these different languages (sadly I know them all except for C#/J# which you could argue I know via knowing Java). Gosh! That should help POI out tremendously. -Andy On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 20:15, Paulo Gaspar wrote: > Do you have anything against Fortran or Cobol? > > There will be .Net implementations for those, you know? And we could > leverage the power of all those "legacy" academic and enterprise > programmers. > > (I bet there are a lot of Cobol guys getting a lot of free time on > their hands after the Y2K mess.) > > > Paulo > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:10 PM > > To: Jakarta General List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Switching development to C# > > > > > > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Marc wrote: > > > > > Having become convinced by Andy that C# and .NET are the wave of the > > > future, I'm proposing that we switch poi development to C#. > > > > > > To the Jakarta community at large: will this affect our status as a > > > Jakarta project? I mean, I can see where a lot of projects are > > > eventually going to follow this same path ... > > > > I'm ok with using .NET, but I think you should use BASIC as language, > > not C#. .NET is language independent, and other jakarta projects > > already switched to BASIC. > > > > Costin > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
