I notice very little activity outside C# and VB.NET. This forum is a good example of the issue! Having coded in the above and JavaScript.NET I can see why, JavaScript is not a
Visual Studio language which makes it less productive (if you're using VS). I thought .NET might be the saviour of a lot of languages. (Haskel and Mondrian look interesting for example and there are still a few people out there wanting to use FORTH.)
Instead I see a bilingual (C# and VB.NET) culture arising and other languages may have a hard time getting
"mind share". I've also seen a surprising number of attempts to assassinate VB.NET by people who presumably can tolerate only one language (C#). Odd behaviour! What are other people's views on how the
language landscape will pan out over the next few years??
Not all languages are familiar to or applicable for web developers, so they may not necessarily be best for ASP.NET. However, if someone wrote a business object or something in, say, FORTH, you could integrate it into the site pretty easily. One language that
might get some use in the web environment is
Perl.NET from ActiveState, because it lets Perl page developers use ASP.NET easily.
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There is a lot of COBOL code still out there. Fujitsu makes COBOL.Net. Lots of places will try to move their old COBOL into .net to reuse the business logic.
Borland is actively working on a .NET version of their Delphi language:
Delphi for .NET compiler preview
Using Delphi as a script language for ASP.NET I, personally and professionally, can't wait for Delphi.NET to be released. It will make life much easier in our company, as we can all use the same language to create what we want. Be it programs or websites!
Cheers, Sven Glazenburg
I've discovered FORTRAN.NET a few weeks ago. I think this can be successful in universities... Other languages such as Perl and Python will have success as well (in my opinion).
Eiffel.NET has implemented "true" multiple inheritance. (The compiler does some tricks to make it single for CLR, but the Eiffel developer is exposed to the multiple inherits.)
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A lot of veteran programmers may prefer some of these older languages (Fortran, etc) but I think a lot of new developers, like me, will prefer VB.net because it is easier. Java convertees and C fans will probably prefer C#.net.
Sven, I was wondering if you know where I could download the delphi.net compiler. I've read the article on the borland website about the compiler but I couldn't find it anywhere in order to try in vs.net. Do you know how vs.net compares to delphi 7 studio ???
thanks, Djindo
I would like to see PERL.Net and J#.Net (or a Java.Net) make it's popularity. However I figure there are more people who can help knowing c# than the other(at least for now.) I would consider myself a veteran of Pascal, so hearing of Delphi.Net sparks me. Anyway,
being beginner/intermediate of Java I decided C# was most familiar and easily accesible at this time.
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