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I think people develop a kind of relationship with a tool after a few years of using it. The brain becomes wired into thinking it is the only way of doing things and change becomes difficult.

Microsoft is making top dollar because of this. Microsoft no longer control all the raw technical ability. there is innovation everywhere but gradually these are getting into the mainstream

Take the Mac for instance this is an OS light years ahead of MS Windows yet it is not mainstream ( although apple is partly to blame for this)

@Beaf
I think my posts are very baised i am a certified hater of Microsoft

I might have considered moving to .Net if its supporter was not Microsoft.  But as long as its Microsoft . . no thank u i will only touch it with a long pole

I bled blood in my previous life as a VB , Foxpro developer don't ever wanna experience this ever again

Only other things i like about Microsoft is Visual Studio, X-box 360. i can't be bothered by other Microsoft crap thank you

@Logica

I know you are an IPhone guy. Do you know the best book on IPhone app development?  Am just about getting started learning Objective-C and can't seem to find any Objective C book with a decent review

I have been using Apple's online manuals and they are crap

Beaf:
Whether Sun's Java lisences are actually open source is another debate. As far as I know, the OSS community only creates libraries, they really have no say over the direction of java as a language.

Correct. but it is the third party libraries or frameworks that drive successful languages .

The language itself should not include too many libraries else it becomes bloated and very difficult to learn or use.

I think Java was beginning to fall into this category with the kind of features added in 1.6 and 1.7 am  hoping the knuckleheads in Sun will just leave the language features the way it is and instead focus more on making the JVM and probably make it more accessible to more languages ( which they actually started with the scripting package in Java 1.6)

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@Beaf

Most of the innovation in Java actually comes from the Open source Community. Sun hasn't done a good job in improving Java in recent years i was actually one of those people happy that about the recent takeover

^^ kiss yourself abeg

Beaf:
That sums it up pretty neatly . Verbosity is useless in OO. Java is almost in the same class as classic ASP.

Am sure this was ment to be a joke 

depends on what u have to offer

Beaf:
.NET 3.5 already allows for parallel computing. The current capabilities are getting seriously expanded in .NET 4 with official support for concepts like Software Transactional memory http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going%20Deep/Software-Transactional-Memory-The-Current-State-of-the-Art/
See also http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/concurrency/

Thats awesome !! never knew that was already in .Net 3.5.

This still doesn't mean i will use .Net though

^^^ lol