On the point of.NET's own programming language; this is patently untrue. Not only is.NET available in all the MS languages (VB/VBScript, C++), but it's also got third-party links so that it's incredibly easy to write a third party programming language and hook it into Visual Studio; yes, use the same IDE for different compilers. Already, Java, Cobol, Forth, Prolog, Perl, and Eiffel compilers have been announced, just to name a few.
Yes, there is a new language in.NET, called C# (C-Sharp). But, if you examine it, it's just a hybrid of C++ with.NET technologies (such as a new foreach keyword for enumeration)
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Yes, there is a new language in .NET, called C# (C-Sharp). But, if you examine it, it's just a hybrid of C++ with .NET technologies (such as a new foreach keyword for enumeration)