Visual Studio .NET sounds nice, but what about other programming languages?
One of the biggest advancements in Visual Studio .NET is that the environment, like the underlying .NET CLR, is not tied to any one language. Microsoft ships C#, C++, Visual Basic, and ECMAScript/JScript/JavaScript support in the box, and will ship its Visual J# .NET add-on later in 2002. But hundreds of companies are porting various programming languages to .NET and the Visual Studio .NET environment, including Delphi/Object Pascal, Perl, PHP, and many more.