Bravo.

>If you could only knew the environment of this company ... the complete ignorance of your statement would astound even you ... here you go ...
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>No sir ... I don't think you've gotten anything right yet ... which makes your attack even sadder (since you have belittled yourself with your own inconsiderate responses ... you quote a wise man but you don't exhibit actions that indicate you've learned anything from him):
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>1. I declared my decision to learn .NET. ... I didn't declare that all of my company's development is now basing its business on .NET. It is not ... it is based on VFP as a client and SQL Server 2000 as a back end ... a stunningly stable development environment ...that will work for the next decade.
>2. I announced I thought the concept of factoring out the functionality from a myriad of languages into a common object nest was a good idea ... not that in any way the processing is efficient … YET.
>3. I stated that I thought C# is the way to go and was developing a web site that documented my trials and tribulations learning this language.
>4. I invited anyone who wants to follow along in my learning adventure to visit my site and make constructive comments (this was implied but ... now that I know that YOU are in the audience I guess I should have spelled this out). I’m curious, does a response like that make you feel intelligent and wise … I have news for you … you achieved the opposite … unfortunate for you.
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>Continuing on … for this, you brazenly brand me a FOOL (with your Lincoln quote) and hang that sign around my neck. If offering to help people learn C# for free is foolish in nature then I will wear a sign around my neck that says "FOOL" ... and do it with honor.
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>Pray tell, what does the sign around your neck say?
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>I don't need to know you in order to form an opinion about your character when you are as brazen and inconsiderate as this. Maybe you just had a bad day ... I'll give you the benefit of a doubt.
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>It is time to learn this paradigm ... I need to teach myself (in order to preserve my own revenue stream) ... I don't see the need to waste that effort on myself alone. I do see a need to help others down this treacherous path ... you yourself said it has a daunting learning curve. All I want to do is help current friends (not to mention those I have yet to make) work through the problems I'm working through now.
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>What, in a concise, intelligent, cogent, properly punctuated and grammatically correct answer, is your problem with that?
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>Respectfully,
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>CTBlankenship