NET is really causing the dumbing down of programmers. Also, my first “real” programming language in high school was Pascal (I learned Basic younger in summer school but I find that to be a toy language, no offense) so I don’t hate Delphi either. Not that I hate C either, I just think that everything you might find to be a pain in C++ is equal, worse, or not even possible in straight C. If you need to make that claim, then I would argue that you should believe C *really* sucks. I agree with most of the sentiments here, except that C++ sucks. They are all now prisoners of Microsoft and the one God, the Only God –. I feel very bad for all the young developers who never knew the fun and easy days of a free world of programming tools. NET we are more like the old Soviet Union where things MUST be done THIS way, the ONLY way, and there can be NO straying from the path. NET.įunny, but in 1984 Steve Jobs introduced the Mac with a commercial showing thousands of drone users all marching in lock-step and then along came a lady who throws a sledge hammer at the giant screen, the “big brother” (believed at the time to be Microsoft), and smashes the screen opening up creativity and indivduality.

Now? Now developers must march in lock-step to the one great God –.

Its very sad because when I was young, lots of people programmed in lots of good systems leading to wild creativity and great interplay between developers discussing techniques, features and systems. Its never enough for them to simply make a good easy-to-use product – no, their products must somehow conquer the world. Yes, Delphi was a great system, so was FoxPro and many other 4GL systems that once looked like programming and software development’s future – but as usual, MS couldnt live with that. Now think about that – MS takes something simple, over-complicates it – and then gives you “Wizards”, helpers, GUI this, GUI that to help you with the complication they just built into something that could have been very simple. Like most things Microsoft does, it is simply over-complicated for the sake of over-complication. Ive been a software developer for over 30 years and I can tell you firsthand from the “trenches” that it is amazing how great a leap BACKWARD.

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