[nycbug-talk] hand wringing

[mlists at bizintegrators.com]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:24:01PM -0400, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> On May 2, 2004, at 2:52 PM, mlists at bizintegrators.com wrote:
> 
> >Don't buy the marketing machine FUD. Take a look in the past 10 years,
> >Windows only got worse. It is far more complex, there is far too much
> >software that no one can understand. Have you ever tried using Visual
> >Studio .NET? And what about worms, viruses, and other junk. Everything
> >is more and more complex, and doesn't really work any better. Of
> >course, there are improvements, but at what price?
> 
> Have YOU used Visual Studio .NET?  I'm not often a windows developer, 
> but when I am, it sure beats the hell out of the gcc toolchain for most 
> things.  Yeah, there is a learning curve, but Emacs and Vim have one 
> too ;)

Maybe I did give up too soon. I don't have a life to spend on learning
how to use it. But hey, I'm pretty biased.. :) Great if it works for
you. It is fine that it beats gcc, gcc runs on many systems, so there
are tradeoffs.