Erik, Are you talking to your office documents again? :-)
Conor > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 2 April 2002 1:43 PM > To: Jakarta General List > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Switching development to C# > > > Ummm, if you're using .NET wouldn't you be able to natively talk (COM, > perhaps) to Office documents, thereby obliviating the need for POI > altogether?! :) (this is said jokingly, but if I'm off base then feel > free to enlighten me). > > Erik > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:25 PM > Subject: RE: [VOTE] Switching development to C# > > > > 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]> > > -- 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]>
