>>>>>You have no clue what you're talking about.
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>>>>You're just a Microsoft apologist with no mind of your own. Stick it.
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>>>With all due respect to the trouble you took to offer a reasoned and technically based rebuttal :
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>>>Mike has actually been working in .NET for a number of years and is doing so very successfully. As I understand it from your contributions, your knowledge of .NET is limited to reading what other people frustrated about MS decisions have told you about it and you have never written anything with .NET which was then "broken" or for that matter have never written anything with .NET at all.
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>>>The idea that somehow this makes Mike the guy with no mind of his own and to label him as a "Microsoft apologist" doesn't give you a lot of credibility.
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>>Yet another good reason not to get into the dot net boat. One has to waste a year or two of frustration, to master a tool and wait for a chance to ditch some of the work because M$ [strike]forced[/strike] gently offered new [strike]buzzwords[/strike] technologies - all that for the dubious pleasure of being qualified to tell Mike that he's hooked on the thing. As if we didn't know that without the effort.
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>Well, I would never question your ability to make judgments on topics about which you have admitted you know little, <s> but perhaps those of us who don't know as much as you do about .NET can continue a little longer to make money using .NET and in our own ignorant way have fun with it before MS and Dick Cheney and Darth Vader once again pull the rug out from under us and we will tear our shirts and lament and wish we had had the benefit of your prescience.
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SNIP

Pssst .... ever seen Dick Cheney and Darth Vader in the same room at the same time? Think about it.