>I for one am very dissapointed in the current state of affairs in the software world. Things are more complicated than they have ever been. There is no reason that 20 years after the first desktop computer, things should be more complicated than they have ever been. With all of the advancements over the last 20 years, things should have become less complicated and I should be able to create viable sofware with just a few clicks of the mouse.
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>In my opinion, things have regressed 15+ years with .net and they won't get better any time soon. In .net, it takes a 40meg runtime just to get started. When I started programming with FoxPro I thought a 10meg hardrive was huge.
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>In my opinion, we've just been transported to the stone age.

You're not the only one with that opinion, Jim. Though I may not go so far as to call it the "Stone Age", I definitely feel things have gotten way more complicated than they should be by now.