On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> It has morphed from the .NET you all hated so much 15 years ago. They show > working in Chrome and not Bing. > It wasn't that I *HATED* DotNet, but I was disappointed in how MS treated FoxPro and developers, and that the DotNet 1.0 preview I saw made it clear that it wasn't ready for prime time for a long time. But I had solutions to deliver to clients in 2002, 2003 and beyond, and I needed to find tools that were ready to do that. VFP could do that, but I couldn't trust MS. I told people at the time that DotNet was going to recap the entire lifecycle of Java (new frameworks! new GUIs! New presentation layers!), and I predicted it would be a good solid platform for development in 8 or 10 years. Luckily, there were many alternatives to bridge the gap. I like to think I've mastered one or two of them in the past decade and a half. For the investment of another 10,000 hours, I might master DotNet, but I don't see the payback. _______________________________________________ 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/cacw6n4vjepcxyeyq8ebh0ze9mvy0d6tz9q+g_mrcyerzj16...@mail.gmail.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.
