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>>To resume I think that this reaction is just normal...
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>No Denis...it is not normal at all.....

Normality takes many forms.

What is normal to me could be anormal to you.

Whatever I say on this topic we'll probably never get to agree.

I think it's normal because of a possible attachment of a developer to a development tool that he's been using and trying to master to his best. And when that developer reaches a level that makes him more than comfortable using it the company that makes the product makes it clear that not only they don't care but apparently they never really did care about it.

That developer never knew that they never cared, only those "chosen" got to hear it so they knew that this product was the bastard son but they could'nt tell.

So they send that developer a message after many years that all the investment he put in this product will go in the garbage because they decided that it won't be included in their new invention. Invention that is apparently the best thing since sliced bread.

So that developer will have to start over with that new thing. If at least the new thing would have been invented to let him do things he could'nt do with the development language he used. It looks like he won't really gain much by learning that new thing. In the end it'll probably be only a matter of doing things differently.

So John you tell me that you don't understand the frustrations of a developer in that situation?