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Is Microsoft going to drop C#?

As Hannes Preishuber reports in his weblog, MS is going to drop C#. It sounds like a joke. Or is it serious? Ask Hannes, if you want to know more... :-)

Comments

common sensi said:

ummmmm i don't think so.
# July 5, 2004 7:42 AM

Phil Winstanley said:

You know when you've been tango'd!

C# is going nowhere, nor is VB.NET, or any language that supports the .NET CLR!

Here they are ...

Ada
A# - port of Ada to .NET (Dr. Martin C. Carlisle)
APL
Dyalog APL (Dyalog Ltd)
AsmL
Abstract State Machine Language (MS Research)
Basic
Visual Basic.NET (Microsoft)
mbas (Mono/Ximian)
C
lcc (ANSI C Compiler from Princeton)
cscc (ANSI C Compiler from Portable.NET)
C#
C# (Microsoft)
Cw ~ comega (Microsoft Research)
mcs (Mono/Ximian)
cscc (DotGNU Portable.NET)
eXtensible C# (Language Extension from ResolveCorp)
Polymorphic C# (MS Research)
C++
Managed Extensions for C++ (Microsoft )
Caml
F# (ML and Caml), Abstract IL, ILX (MS Research)
OCAMIL (Emmanuel Chailloux & Raphael.Montelatici)
Cobol
NetCOBOL - COBOL for .NET (Fujitsu)
Net Express (Micro Focus)
NetKicks (CICS to ASP.NET) (Fujitsu)
Delphi
Borland Delphi and C++Builder Support for .NET (Borland)
Delphi.NET - interoperability tools (Marcus Schmidt)
Eiffel
Eiffel for .NET (Interactive Software Engineering)
Forth
Delta Forth .NET (Valer BOCAN)
Fortran
Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran for .NET (Lahey Computer Systems, Inc.)
FTN95 - Fortran for Microsoft .NET (Salford Software Ltd.)
Haskel
Hugs98 for .NET
Haskell for .NET (using Mondrain for .NET) (Nigel Perry)
IL/MSIL (Intermediate Language)
MSIL (Microsoft )
ilasm (IL Assembler from Microsoft )
Mono Assembler (Mono/Ximian)
Portable.NET Assembler (dotGNU)
Java
Visual J# .NET (Microsoft)
IKVM.NET - Java VM for .NET (Jeroen Frijters)
JavaScript
JScript .NET (GotDotNet)
JANET - JavaScript-compatible language
Lexico
Lexico (Spanish)
LISP
DotLisp (Rich Hickey)
clisp (Microsoft)
LOGO
MonoLOGO (Richard Hestilow)
Lua
Lua.NET: Integrating Lua with Rotor (PUC-RIO)
Mercury
Mercury on .NET
Mixal Assembly Language
MixNet (SourceForge)
Mondrian
Mondrian for .NET (Nigel Perry)
Oberon
Active Oberon for .NET (ETH Zuerich)
Nemerle
Nermerle (The University of Wroclaw)
Perl
Perl for .NET, PerlNET (ActiveState SRL.)
PerlSharp (Joshua Tauberer)
Pascal
Component Pascal (QUT)
TMT .NET Pascal Compiler (TMT)
Borland Delphi and C++Builder Support for .NET (Borland)
Delphi.NET - interoperability tools (Marcus Schmidt)
PHP
PHP Sharp
PHP Mono Extensions (Sterling Hughes)
Prolog
P# (Jon Cook at Univ. of Edinburgh)
Python
boo - "Python inspired syntax" (Rodrigo B. de Oliveira,Georges Benatti)
IronPython (Jim Hugunin)
KOBRA (Chetan Gadgil)
Open Source Python for .NET (Mark Hammond)
Python Scripting for .NET (Brian Lloyd)
Ruby
NetRuby (arton)
Ruby/.NET Bridge (Ben Schroeder, John Pierce)
RPG
ASNA Visual RPG for .NET
Scheme
Dot-Scheme - PLT Scheme Bridge (Pedro Pinto)
Hotdog (Northwestern University)
Tachy (Ken Rawlings)
Scheme.NET (Indiana University)
Small Talk
S# (SmallScript LLC)
#Smalltalk (John Brant & Don Roberts)
SML (Standard Meta Language)
SML.NET (Microsoft Research, University of Cambridge)
Tcl/Tk
TickleSharp (jscottb, Novell Forge)

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# July 5, 2004 7:55 AM

SBC said:

yeah right.. :-)
read my feedback comment at Hannes' blog..
# July 5, 2004 8:23 AM
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