>Good analogy, but I think that you might want to know how to understand how to build the basic house before all the tools are available. If you wait until the hammer and saw - then the chalk line, power saw and level - are there, others will already have the basic skills. They will have no problem using the new tools, which will just make their job easier. Nothing wrong with learning the foundations first.

Sure. But I'm already a "carpenter".
I know the benefits of certain tools and don't really want to build my next house without them.

As regards others having the basic skills, well that's ALWAYS going to be so and I just don't see it as a "problem". If it was a problem then no one (else) would do any job that someone else already does, would they?

I've said before, but feel a need to say it again here, that I will always be beholden to the pioneers of the .NET platform. They have suffered the crap and pulled the strings to make it a platform that will be widely useable in the future. I've had such experience in the past and it was a whole lot of fun at the time. But that's no longer my bent, and I am perfectly happy to have someone else 'enjoy' such adventures.

But I don't really need anyone to pull the 'you can't talk because you ain't done it' argument on me when I can read for myself the words that esteemed people have taken the time to write about their experiences and assessments of .NET.
Are article saying ".NET is the greatest thing since sliced bread" the only credible articles out there????

cheers

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>>I'm sure that someone *can* do just about anything they need to do using .NET. But to many of us it still looks like it would be like using s chisel to build a whole house and we want to wait until it adds a hammer and a saw. Why is it so hard for you to accept that?