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Steven Côté wrote: > > what does .net allow me to do, run applications within a browser, i > > never really understood all of this, I am not a programmer. > > > Well, I am a programmer and I fail to understand it as well, so don't > feel bad. > > I had a chance to sit down with a friend of min the other week and he > tried to explain to me why .net was awesome and he failed to come up > with a single technical reason that could not be met using existing > technology. > > I use the caveat word 'technical' because there are good business > reasons. I use the caveat word 'good' because those reasons usually > sound something like "everyone else uses .net, so now we have to as well." LOL just like, everyone uses Windows so we must use it too. :-) I used to enjoy programming in Visual Basic (and before that Quick Basic and GWBasic, and before that Locomotive Basic on the Amstrad CPC). Granted I'm not a great programmer, I can write applications usually to do what I want but I know I have a few bad habits when it comes to writing code. Now I dabbled with Visual Basic.NET a couple of years back basically because Microsoft were giving away a version for free (plus Visual C#.Net etc) but I couldn't get on with it. I did try and persevere with it but the help was awful and I ended up just getting cheesed off with it. I still have a copy of Visual Basic 3 Standard with the rather good manuals somewhere but alas I can't write 32-Bit (or 64-Bit) applications on it. :-( I'm looking at learning another programming language now. I'm very reluctant to learn *.NET, I think now I'd rather learn C or Assembler (maybe 68k Assembler) instead (just as something to do, I do realise that 68k Assembler is probably not much use now unless I'm writing homebrew software for the ST or Amiga). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html