>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 > > > > > > -- > > 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]> > "Touch passion when it comes your way ... it's rare enough as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name." Marcus Cole, Babylon 5: Lines of Communication _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>