But don’t get me wrong.<\/p>\n
I’m not claiming that you become a zealot, close your doors and windows when a new technology comes popping up. <\/p>\n
This .NET in theory is good. (Same can be said about the other web-and-all-around targeted tools that came before<\/em> and after this.) <\/p>\n In fact in practice, a lot of good .NET-based applications can be seen already.<\/p>\n Plus there’s this insatiable quest for learning almost every coder encounters. Every now and then that thirst should be satisfied. Even if installing VS.NET 2002<\/font> slows down my decent PC while Visual Foxpro 8<\/font> runs so well and so swiftly on my other AMD 500<\/font>MHz machine. <\/p>\n Even if upgrading TheFramework renders the applications developed in the old framework useless and broken.<\/p>\n But the essence of developers and programmers and whatever you call yourself are solutions. The best solutions if possible.<\/p>\n If you’re going to a friend who’s just five kilometers away from you, with no bodies of water separating you and you’re not living in a floating glacier or something… then using an airplane as a means of transportation is an overkill, if not crazy.<\/p>\n You can even ride a dog, a horse or my pet tiger, a bike or a medieval cannon and convert yourself into a cannonball.<\/p>\n Of course you can always take an airplane… but then you have to build a runway first, which will take, let’s say just for the sake of discussion, around 2<\/font> kilometers and another 2<\/font> kilometers in your friend’s place. And if you build these two runways where it is located between point A (Your place) and point B (Your friend’s place) that would leave just 1<\/font> kilometer of travel span and no way can an airplane travel that distance. <\/p>\n Even if you’ll find a way, to build the runway and the airplane in such a way that you can still travel for five kilometers… it still is a major overkill.<\/p>\n We’re not even considering the resources spent, the red tapes you’ll get into… the time wasted and all. <\/p>\n Unless you’re still sticking to defending the airplane path and decide on waiting for that hovercraft driven by a scantily clad cyborg that looks like Cleopatra with vertical landing and take off features to come out in the market.<\/p>\n
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