Microsoft said it has added Fortran and Report Program Generator to the list of languages that will run on Visual Studio.Net. That tool is Visual Studio.Net, which Microsoft will release in a Beta 2 version this week. Instead of pushing a single language, Microsoft is promoting a tool that uses Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, which allows developers to write code in languages ranging from the burgeoning C# to its rival Java. 'They will all be quite vibrant, and it is very likely that new languages will emerge.' 'In the future, no one language is going to dominate,' he said.

Net initiative as the best platform for creating applications and Web services. One of Microsoft Corp.'s first developer tools met one of its latest in a demonstration Tuesday at the TechEd 2001 developers conference, when Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect, showed how a primitive computer game he wrote long ago on a prototype IBM PC could be modified by Visual Basic.Net.īringing back to life one of the first applications Gates ever wrote using Quick Basic - a predecessor to Visual Basic, which Gates designed in the early 1980s - the software guru showed how the archaic game Donkey.bas could be transformed from simple two-dimensional graphics into a richer interactive experience using XML Web services.īut Gates maintained in his speech that Visual Basic.Net is just one of more than 20 development languages that Microsoft has embraced in order to push its.

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