Welcome back, Claude. I don't recall having seen your name here for ages.
>>I know... all we need is yet another thread on this topic.... but I must :)
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>>Does it seem to anyone else that the open source languages are actually more consistent than .Net?
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>>.NET has been through what, 4 or 5 data access methodologies now (ADO, LINQ, Entity, etc.)? WinForms gave way to WebForms which was supposed to give way to SilverLight but now SilverLight is the domain of WP7, not the future of desktop apps. Sorry guys. Classic ASP gives way to asp.net with MVC but then the MSFT implementation of MVC is shite so we go with MVVM or maybe now MVCVVMCMVM? If you were using open source DLR projects like IronRuby or IronPython you have been defunded. Sorry. What, you want to be productive in the IDE? Then go out and purchase CodeComplete and TestDriven and Reflector and blahblah.
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>>Sure the Fox can be a bit challenging in certain areas (multi-threading sticks out for sure) but I'll be damned if I can ever see being as productive in .NET for simple desktop apps as I am with the Fox. Being a small shop, .Net solves problems I don't have. When VFP stops paying the bills I'm looking to Python or Ruby. Those languages look so damn lean and sexy and exciting!
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>>That is all. Thank you for reading.
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>Reading some of the other threads here, I'll put my flame suit on first:
>You are being very perceptive! Microsoft is a big public company that must answer to shareholders. If they have a choice between pleasing shareholders and pleasing programmers, I don't think they'd hesitate to please the shareholders. Open Source software, on the other hand, ONLY answers to programmers. In my mind the future of software will have to be open source because it will become obvious that big companies cannot be trusted to do it right.
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>Multi-threading in Fox works well thanks to Calvin. He probably did everything he could, under the adverse circumstances, to get his multi-threading class out. Did you see that in his blog and the followup work at CodePlex??
