> This is utterly ridiculous. All these things are obvious. I mean, > suggesting I join a Delphi forum? (previous post) As if somehow I > hadn't participated in so many for so many years -- or a guy who has > possibly the most marked up copy of CLR via C# extant doesn't even get > the basic concept of .Net yet. I think there's a better thing to do. .<br>
Please chill out. No one launched any personal attacks of any kind against you. Alan, Miguel and many others have taken the time to answer and answer you again and I do not see any personal blames in their prose. In the IT world everything changes and can change very quicky and it is up to you to "sniff" what is coming and anticipate moves. I perfectly understand your frustation against this always-moving-world but.. how could I say... "This behaviour is by design" :-) An IT career is marked by milestones and rocky roads but this is the game and you have to anticipate what the future on this road will look like and do adequate moves. Take your skills at your advantage, you seems to have a good experience in Pascal/Delphi and Pascal/.Net compilers are available. If you are quite new to the .Net world, take your time to explore it from your Delphi basis and see what it can do for you. You will be amazed of how your existing skills associated with a "new start" can be a benefit for you. > That's all. But that's a big thing to me. Still, I my purpose in > mentioning this was to point out a division -- MS is betting on diverse > executables everywhere; the succeeding, competing browsers are You may disagree to that but this is the rude law of the IT Market. They have to make profit, and to make profit they have to sell/innovate and.Net is a keypoint in their goals. Imagine what the IT market would look like if Java would have been available. I do not know if you already played around with old Win32 C/C++ applications but the first time I used C# 7 years ago I ensure you it was a real pleasure to not rewrite the plumbering again and again and spending weeks on debugging funny stuff like null pointers issues or memory leaks. >From a project point of view, using .Net/Java has the main advantage of being able to focus on the application design and documentation and to reduce potential bugs by reducing the number of code lines you have to write and the application development costs. Of course you are not required to use .Net or Java, you can use many other bricks. Java is an alternative in high level languages. If you love "old" technologies you can either use C++ or Assembler, no one forbids you to act that way and no one will condemn you to act so. They just "ease" the programmer's job. Kind regards, Adrien _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
