No need to apolgize. Just think how fast POI will be once it can connect directly with the installed version of Excel/Word to generate documents. No more time wasted reverse-enginering the binary document formats! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [VOTE] Switching development to C#
> You'll have to excuse our digression into a Microsoft Love fest.. . > After all, we're all dysfunctional! > > -dysfunctional Andy > > On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 16:19, Bill Barker wrote: > > I'm all for this plan. Especially since Sun plans to build their version of > > the CLR with special extensions that optimize it on Solaris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Marc Portier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:21 PM > > Subject: RE: [VOTE] Switching development to C# > > > > > > > Costin, > > > > > > it's even better! > > > since it _is_ language independant we could have all developers leverage > > the > > > language they already know! > > > > > > YES! you can use Java aswell, and everyone here knows the supported 1.4.x > > > JDK release, right? > > > The BASIC guys could even extend the Java classes and vice versa... and it > > > all works! > > > > > > Heil .Net > > > > > > -marc= > > > PS: I always wanted to post a message with leverage in it, I simply luuv > > the > > > word > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: maandag 1 april 2002 22:10 > > > > 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 >
