You know, Jay, you used to be a much nicer guy before your sig became longer than your posts :)

Your post to Walter misses the point he is trying to make. You're saying that only if one has direct experience with .Net in actual production development can one offer a valid opinion. You are wrong in this assumption on several counts.

For instance, if I read the comments and opinions of someone else, say a .Net MVP, and offer them in a discussion those opinions are no less valid simply because I have no direct experience myself. In this specific regard a couple .Net MVP's and other experienced .Net developers have stated that .Net, in their opinion, is not as strong for local database apps as VFP. Surely I can accept their opinions as being reasonable?

A more simple example: I have never written a program in assembler. I dont even know how to. But I can guarentee you that it is not an optimum solution for a database application. Is my opinion baseless even though I have no "direct production experience"? I can see what assembler is all about, I have read what it is strong in. I don't need to go out and try to build an app in assembler to understand what it is not best suited for.

Anyway, it's the same boring discussion on a different day with only the level of bs that changes ...




>Ahhh, Walter. Glad to have you back. Seriously. I have missed the times you actually tried to discuss things logically.
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>I'll address the question buried in the heart of your post that you probably thought I would avoid. I personally do not have experience with developing in .NET, but surely that can't be an issue to you? ;-) The point that I would like to make here is that I have never, ever argued .NET over Foxpro. Because I know I am not qualified. Having never actually used the product in a production environment I would feel that I couldn't possibly be taken seriously. My issues are simply stating that you have a lot of opinions, and opinions from others, about what you think the facts are. Get back to me after you have actually used it for something other than tracking your CD collection. Then I'll take your arguments on .NET seriously.
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