Re: [OT] .NET Rant

From: gabriel (no_at_no--spam.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:38:19 +0000

C# Learner wrote:

> The thing is, HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse would be *ideal* for
> what I want to do. Since they don't have this fundamental
> functionality, I'm going to have to reinvent the wheel.

Obviously, if you have to reinvent the wheel, the built in classes are
_not_ ideal...

> I will now have to go and make two classes, called HttpRequest and
> HttpResponse, which act exactly like the above two, except that they
> allow "raw" packet access. In this case, .NET is nowhere near ideal
> for the lazy programmer, as has been claimed many a time.

The lazy programmer would use what is built in. Again, in normal
programming I have never had to go beyond the built in stuff, specially
look at the raw data from HTTP requests.

> Why do MS tout it as the be-all and end-all then? I see now that this
> is *false* advertising.

I don't think they do. There's certainly a ton of stuff you cannot do
with it, even at first glance (ie, write an O/S boot loader, write an
effective memory manager, etc...) and there's stuff that would take
longer if you tried to do it in .NET than in another language (ie, a disk
secotr editor, low-level o/s intensive stuff, etc...)

Anyway, I better shut up before the "since I only know how to use a
hammer, everything looks like a nail" .NET-only gang. 

-- 
gabriel

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