>>>And I'd like if if WPF were going to be around for a while (well, it will be around for a while, it just won't be updated in any significant manner),
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>Bernard Baruch, a sage investor (WAY before most of you were born) had a simple motto:
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>"Buy too late and sell too soon."
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>That's how most of us have to approach a new programming language. It just takes too much effort and time to allow for blind alleys and dead ends and the cost to the client for a bad choice can be huge.
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I agree with that. But when you are committed to being a developer and think you are on the Titanic, what do you do? You have to make a choice. I am holding faith that .NET was a good one.