Dick, I think the NetBeans dependency blurb was my wording, not
Ernie's, so I guess I'll be the one to defend it. :)

> Hi Ernie
>
> This has spawned an interesting thread and I appreciate many of the
> arguments, particularly about the fact that this may make you
> dependent on netbeans. I would counter that only by saying that if you
> use the fancy GUI tools in visual studio for .NET you are going to be
> similarly trapped I believe.

Yes, but if you are referring to Visual Studio it is the standard and
thus it's much less of a problem in .NET than for Java, where there
are several IDEs. Also, VS is not that good, it's just very simple and
pragmatic and

As for the rest of your arguments I agree wholeheartedly, you fall
firmly into the usage category that benefits from Matisse and the
simplicity it brings.

Cheers,
Mikael Grev
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