>Alex,
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>>What about having the ability to create components in any of 19 obscure languages that haven't been used for anything but to torture college students for the last 20 years????
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>An interesting question to ask is how much of the syntax of all those 19 languages has to change for .NET. Do they lose capabilities? I don't know the answer, but it's an interesting question to ask.
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>IOW, don't assume that all the ports are easy or full-function or provide backward compatability. I imagine their main usefulness is in easy the porting of legacy code.

David;

Yes, you pose a most interesting question. What about "garbage collection", pointers, etc. Each language has unique features in one way or another. Memory leaks - ahhh! 19 different types of memory leaks! Such fun I see ahead!

Tom