On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, at 05:23 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Aug 25, 2016, at 6:13 PM, [email protected] > wrote: > > > > That pretty much sums up lots of the web and early DotNet stuff!!!! I > > swear sometimes it seems like these uber-nerds create things to be so > > complex simply because they can. > > That was always the Microsoft way: take something and make it so complex > that you needed their tools to manage it. Look at FrontPage, or what they > did to SOAP for the obvious examples. > > > -- Ed Leafe
Web development didn't need Microsoft to get itself into its current hellishly complicated state. .NET isn't and wasn't any more complex than any other comparable platform like Java. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1472455604.2431550.708897257.0d962...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

