Let me first point out that i am a huge opponent of .NET.
Back to our point: why do you think that it sucks?? something as reptitive and routine as that shouldn't waste your time, right?
I mean, the whole open source paradigm is built on that, write some piece of code, write it good, debug, document, include in all future projects... and that certainly does apply to the module you mentioned.
As long as the code is open for your inspection, you shouldn't keep on reinventing the wheel every other day. That's a waste of production, which could and should be redirected at some other task (ie: the not so routine things, or special customization demands)...
But the article was about learning CS, and at that point, i think you shouldn't drag/drop. Every student should do that module (at least once) to understand the implications and different approaches of doing it.
The other day i was reading some course material for "Software Engineering for Web Applications" course that is given at MIT (authored by Philip Greenspun), and i was amazed at the different approaches they mentioned for user management and authentication alone. I always used the one table contains all user information thing, but i just discovered some other ways which could be more suitable in some cases.
The author of the article really bashes at java in favour of C. But what about web development? the entire world is going inside the browser(fact). Is C a better choice than Java there? I don't know many scripting languages but all the ones i know don't have pointers!! so what now? should we stop using and learning them because our heads do not explode while trying to implement a self-adjusting binary hash tree using pointers?
Like i said before, different goals require different tools, and i for one say "GOOD RIDDANCE" when it comes to pointers. I think by the authros view, i would be considered a n00b now???
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