X#, Anyone?
MS Watch | at | by Mike
Could Microsoft be working behind the scenes on another new programming language? A company official dropped hints at last week's XML 2002 conference in Baltimore that Microsoft is considering the potential for a language that would be optimized to handle data. One source close to the company said that Microsoft has held internal discussions to kick around ideas for XML-specific language, referred to internally as "X#."
Microsoft introduced its most recent new language, Visual C# a couple of years ago. C# got its start as the skunk-works COOL effort that Microsoft positioned as a head-to-head competitor with Java. Microsoft is spending considerable time and money on developing new apps from scratch in C#, as well as on convincing customers and partners to do the same.