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Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain?
duffbeer703 writes "As a UNIX guy dragged kicking and screaming into the Windows world, I've never really been able to enjoy Windows programming. Charles Petzold, who is a long-time developer for DOS & Windows really laid out the reasons for me at the NYC .NET Dev group. Visual Studio and Microsoft tools force you to adopt programming techniques designed around implementation speed, not understanding or quality."
I've been forced to restart a visual studio crash more than twice a day this week. I'd much prefer if they merely allowed me to crash it, when I felt like it.
I can't wait until I return to my normal job, programming in a real IDE that doesn't freeze so often.
But any excuse to bash Microsoft, eh?
classic slashdot partisan bullshit
saying that using a microsoft development platform rots the brain?
right! gotcha!
this is a title that only the brain dead linux/ perl/ apache/ php/ firefox partisans here on slashdot would appreciate, laugh, slap each other on the back in their smug holier-than-thou clique, and go on to their next hilarious article about balmer throwing chairs or something
like any of this partisan crap is supposed to mean anything in the real world?
here's a news flash for you:
brain dead partisan politics, nay, high school cliques, like the ones you find here on slashdot, with no basis in reality or technology, now THAT rots the brain!
for real
i feel like i have to go take a shower to wash the stink of slashdot off me when i read headlines like this
i can feel a million fat dweebs with stuffed penguins next to their monitor in the basement crawling on my skin
yeeech...
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Let it cultivate. That approach will only go so far. Once applications become moderately complex, that whole methodology of programming collapses. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if it took with it the people who fell for it. They probably shouldn't be working as programmers anyways.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
From the looks of your post, your not a real developer. I have no respect for anyone who codes with VS. You never learn what actually happens or how things work. Cute buttons do not make functional applications. The only exception to this statment are people who can hand code C#.
Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain?
Is M$ a monopoly?
if (USER_OS == "Microsoft")
{
printf("Your brain is being rotted!!!\n");
}
Yes.
(If you decide to RTFA, be prepared to set aside an hour.)
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My experience was exactly the opposite. Until maybe 2 years I had never even attempted to write an application in or for Windows. VI was my lord and C/Perl/Python my New Testiment then one day after feeling somewhat deflated with what my GTK apps were looking like based on the effort put into them, I decided to venture into the world of Visual Studio just for a taste. The results were not what I expected...
.NET. But things didn't stop there. Not only was the application dramatically enhanced, but it was much more scalable and robust.
After a few short days of using Visual Studio I really started to come out of my shell. While I had used IDEs like Visual Age before, they never really appealed to me, VIM was about as close as I felt I'd ever get to a GUI IDE. Now all that had changed. Visual Studio just made it easier to focus on what I was here to do, write an application. I was simply more efficient and I took it upon myself to attempt a somewhat large project to really get my hands dirty.
I decided to port a large distributed network analysis application I had written for FreeBSD using a combination of Perl, C and PHP in C# using ASP.NET, Windows Services and some WinForms. This project had taken me approximately 1.5 years to complete on the UNIX side of the house and I was planning on re-writing every line of code for Windows. Quite simply, what took me 1.5 years to write in UNIX with VIM, took me a little over 6 months with Visual Studio and the help of
Don't get me wrong, I still code in VI and most of my client/server apps have Linux/FreeBSD support, but my IDE of choice is definitely Visual Studio. No question.
Yes the GNU IDE is for real development. Especially the enhanced version with GTK or QT. ... ...
That is the GNU Imaginary Development Environment. What do you get with this system?
You have a choice:
Text Editor: Emacs, for more advanced users VI and the expert ed.
Compiler: gcc, g++, gfortran
Scripting: Perl, GNU Smalltalk
Last your Imagination. That right your Imagination to place those wigets in mid air. Yes you too can develop without a GUI.
No code rot here you have to think and know what you are doing.
Huzzah! And I'm an anonymous flamebaiting troll!!
...too bad no one will read this unless I'm funny/informative
/just confused the mods