Paul G. Allen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 10:51 -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
Meanwhile as best I can discern from the point of view of nearly every
developer I talk with Microsoft is irrelevant. The Web is all that
matters.
Google matters, etc. but Microsoft is no longer a player.
Alas would that it were so. We have a strong core of C# advocates here.
The .NET crowd morphed into C# when .NET was suddenly not-so-shiny
anymore. Microsoftians have a short racial memory.
Unfortunately I've heard a couple engineers here talking about current
projects being written in C# and other conversations about .NET. Both
What is C#? Is it C++? I'm guessing it's something different.
scare me. We just transitioned much of our IT infrastructure to Linux.
We develop our embedded code on Linux platforms. I have a Linux box that
I use for 99.9% of the work I do, including writing test and production
utilities in Java on Linux.
I rarely turn my Windoze computer on, and when I do it's more trouble
than it's worth. I'm finally getting away from M$ and Windoze, and here
comes some engineer(s) with brilliant ideas about using C# and .NET.
I saw this a lot in school as well. Note that the school I went to had
classes full of working professionals. These people are supposed to have
some sort of a clue about technology (with the exception of the ones
that were making a career change from an un-related field). There were a
large number of them that simply embraced .NET, C#, and other M$
technologies just because they were M$ and "...but everyone uses
Microsoft...". Hello, just because everyone walks off a cliff doesn't
mean you need to do it too!
I seem to recall that at one time it was very common practice to use
lead solder in waterpipes and asbestos in insulation. Didn't the Romans
use lead pipes for their water system?
Even toward the end of the courses, in the final classes before
graduation, an alarming number of people would still discount the idea
(which was taught class after class) that the number one criteria for
choosing software is will it do the job, not who makes it or how popular
it is.
PGA
Lead pipes did the job, although in the long term it was *not* a good idea.
Microsoft does the job, although in the long term ...
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