Jim,

>The cover of the Sep/Oct 2002 CoDe magazine has an image of a hand (mutant, or possibly genetically-modified) with "Visual Studio.Net Languages" inscribed on the palm and the 5 fingers plus a thumb each sporting the name of a different language.
>
>Included in the language names are: Eiffel, Python, Perl and Cobol.
>Does Visual Studio.Net include these languages in the product?

These do not come with VS .NET, but are available from various third-party vendors.

Interactive Software Engineering makes Eiffel for .NET, which includes an interesting implementation of multiple inheritance (http://www.eiffel.com/)

ActiveState makes Python and Perl for .NET, and also has some great VS .NET add-ins for working with XML and XSLT. (http://www.activestate.com)

Fujitsu has a version of Cobol for .NET. Although that got one of the fingers on the cover, we were not able to cover it in that issue. (http://www.netcobol.com/)

In the VS .NET box, you get C#, C++, VB .NET and J# (J# may not be final release version yet). The fact that we did not include C++ as one of the fingers got us a hot letter from a C++ user, who said he wanted to give us one of the fingers (the VB one). :-)

We will cover other languages, including C++, in future issues.

The Sep/Oct issue of CoDe also includes an article on the VFP Toolkit for .NET.