Putting Down .NET
CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers
I have been trying to resurrect my old interest in programming – for reasons that baffled me. After thing about it endlessly, I suspect it is because I still want to be wonderful – so that my long-dead mother will come back to life and love me – something she emphatically resisted in the flesh. The last time I saw her, when she was dying of cancer, she made this abundantly clear.
I came across this story on slashdot this morning – and it blew me away. I have blogged about this on Once Again, I Fail to Become a Programmer. I said there are real programmers (people with the genetic endowment that makes them programmers naturally) – and the rest of us. The twain shall never meet.
This article makes that even clearer. But I still want to add more: Microsoft’s Visual Studio, the tool that is supposed to bring everything together does just the opposite, at least for me – it scatters everything to the four winds. I suspect this is deliberate (if unconscious) Microsoft policy. It doesn’t want its grunts to become too independent and self-sufficient on their own.
It doesn’t want them to become real.
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