>From: "Paulo Gaspar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Do you have anything against Fortran or Cobol?

Cobol, yes. Fortran, no.

>
>There will be .Net implementations for those, you know? And we could
>leverage the power of all those "legacy" academic and enterprise
>programmers.

Naaaah ... I heard someone (Sam?) say something about implementing APL! 
(slogan: write once, read never)

>
>(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
> >
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