(lot's snipped for brevity) > What I am trying to point out here is that there is a > neat technology out there which is being legally > "appropriated" by the Mono project. IMO, serious > coders should take a look. I think the Linux community > should learn to copy what works when it is appropriate > and legal, instead of adhering to the "not created > here" mentality.
That's a more compelling argument then (paraphrasing) .NET has a nice object representation for web application elements and keeps track of state for you. That said, I find that kind of development puts a LOT of faith in the tools and the language itself -- particularly in regard to security. when you're draggin' and droppin' to rapid development Nirvana, you have to basically assume that garbage collection, stack protection, overflow protection etc are built into the language or the IDE infrastructure that generates the code. I'm not saying that's impossible to do but clearly it's hard to do right. And then there's debugging.... In short my sysadmin's perspective says here's another big bloated convoluted mess that even the vendor doesn't fully comprehend. So most of the potential users will spend gobs of money and time on the software and hardware to develop relatively simple forms-based applications that could be done just as easily with circa-1999 CGI. whoopee. I prefer to go for "simple" rather than "easy". It may be easy to develop in .NET, but I would hesitate to describe it (or J2EE for that matter) as simple. -- Scott Harney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers" gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5
