>>> When a programmer wants to cross platform his code, he can not use C# and .NET, he needs to use C and C++. Last time I heard there is no C# compiler for embedded systems. Does Simbian operating system or Sharc processors have C# compiler? Am I wrong? The world does not end with Microsoft Windows or Unix. >>> COBOL for database programming To remind you, one of the posts to this thread was talking about people still earning money from COBOL and RPG. >>> C# and .NET are very slow in comparison with C and C++. I do not know which tests you made, but I work with embedded system alot and as such, checked the assembly code produced by C++ and I even wrote assembly code in order to speed up some tasks. As such, I think I can safely say that in most cases emulation code will be much slower than native code. If you prove otherwise, you will change some theories in computer science and get a prize. Regards, Reuven Nisser

Once upon a time, when IBM ruled the world, they came with a new language called PL/1. They said it the state of the art language, you can do anything with it and it will be the language of the future. They had a lot of influence so PL/1 stayed for many years in the market but now it's gone. Microsoft will not decide which will be the language of the future. Microsoft do not care. They want to sell Windows and Office. To do it they need us, the programmers to develop programs for Windows. If a critical mass will move to C# and .NET, they might consider not supporting C and C++ but if not, they will not do it. Windows programming is not everything. Unix still exists and Embedded programming exists also. When a programmer wants to cross platform his code, he can not use C# and .NET, he needs to use C and C++. And to my third thought of the subject. Each programming language as a place where it fills good to use it: FORTRAN for mathematical calculations. COBOL for database programming. RPG for database reports. PHP for web server side programming. C and C++ for fast execution code and devices programming. BASIC for fast GUI programming. Java for platform independence. What is the place for ASP? C#? Just to remind you, a server with PHP can hold many more clients than ASP. C# and .NET are very slow in comparison with C and C++. Are we buying faster computers so we could run the same application which now runs slower? Regards, Reuven Nisser

Hello, I am trying to examine MathType (Equations) OLE data. My daughter Stav is totally blind. She is learning in the 10th grade and she needs books in Braille. I contacted the publisher of the Mathematics book she needs to learn from in order to produce it in Braille. I received a Word document containing embedded MathType equations. This is a one time job, so if some of the steps should be done manually I do not care. I finaly reached the conclusion that each equation data is kept in OLEDATA.MSO, MathType documents the binary data but I can not find it inside the file. Can someone help with the format of the file? I saved the Word document as XML (Office 2003) and found all //o:OLEObject[starts-with(@ProgID, 'Equation')] But I do not know how to go from here Thanks, Reuven