Sam Gentile
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Registered: Sep, 2003
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Sam Gentile is a Microsoft .NET Consultant who has been working with .NET since the earliest
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It's All Too Bizarre Mr. Grimes
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Posted: Mar 9, 2005 3:02 AM
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Out of immense respect for Richard, I have refrained from commenting on the bizarre rantings of Richard Grimes' final column. Well, now Scott has and I agree: Stop Complaining. I want to say that I knew Richard personally at one time and I have had nothing but the utmost respect for him. His classic books on COM, DCOM, and then Managed C++ were among my best-loved technical books and I found his technical understandings first-rate. All of which makes his bizarre rantings all the more strange and have me wincing for his technical career. Scott already addresses the three main items and that Scott and Dan shredded his rantings one by one. I'd like to pile on Scott's comment “The Size of the Framework - Sure, it's big. So was Win32, and so is sun.java.*. Programming isn't all Ruby on Rails, you know. :) The redist is 25 Meg? For what you get that's pretty cheap. That'll fit on any pen-drive and can be downloaded in a few minutes via broadband.” For the record, I bashed Joel on this in 2002 and it's even more stupid today. For someone to even raise this in the days of broadband = 2 minute download, bundled in Win XP SP2, mandatory upgrade, etc, just is naive. Managed runtimes are here to stay and dominate period. Gosh, put it in your install. In this day and age, most companies are going to trade size for immense productivity gain in a second. Where is he going to go? Back to native C++? Gee, that makes sense. Take 10x the amount of time to do something over .NET or Java or Smalltalk, etc and spend all your weekends chasing memory leaks and buffer overruns. What a career move. The days of native code, especially native C++, except in niche markets like embedded, games, etc is over. Your business customers can't afford the cost it takes for you to develop in C++ and you can't secure it. It's either Java or .NET Baby (or Smalltalk). I really don't care which but Gosh sakes write in a secure managed runtime and use all the immense features of the runtimes and their libraries to get lots of functionality developed much faster. I don't know what happened to you Richard because you're too smart for all of this.
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