[ale] .NET considered harmful

[Jerald Sheets]

I dunno about myself... I felt I was grasping for words, but Don is freaking brilliant.  I wouldn't expect any less.  I count it an honor to have worked with him.


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On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:42 AM, John Pilman wrote:

>> All I think the author is saying is, if I've got a person who is a true-blue
>> programmer, a "maker of things", chances are extremely good they will have
>> core languages where the sky is the limit, and if they really love
>> programming and do it all the time, will ultimately become annoyed at
>> "cookie-cutter" environments that lay everything out in pre-fabricated ways.
>>  Not because those ways are particularly bad but because it isn't the nature
>> of a programmer of the type they are searching for.  One who works from the
>> ground up in core programming rather than platform development.  There is a
>> difference, and it is not small.
> 
> I disagree.  It would have been great if that was what he was saying.
> Basically he is a big fish in a small pond and taking a shot at a
> Microsoft makes him feel bigger.  He spends a lot of the blog slamming
> Microsoft and .NET.  What he says about them may be true, but it does
> not help to identify good programmers.
> 
> If he is looking for programmers who like to program and try different
> things, any short list of languages would be suspect.
> 
> I wish you, Jerald or Don, had written that blog instead.  You both
> did a better job describing good programmers than the original author.
> 
> 
> ...John
> 
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