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glennPattonWork wrote:
I never wanted to program on Windows, I got stuck with it!

The customer and the Boss seem to happy I have told the Boss, he seems to think It is good enough.
Other than the fact you are saddled with the project for the remainder of your employment with your current employer, I'd say mission accomplished. Sometimes we get stuck with projects we wish we hadn't got, but that's a pitfall of being employed in any feild.

I know I can remember days where I worked in C, C++, C#, objective C, VB6, VB.NET or some varient of assembly along with a host of poorly written compilers that were specific to a microcontroller where I thought "...what a steaming pile of dung!" But I can also say I've seen some incredibly clever methods of overcoming even the most difficult endeavors in languages used to do things the language was never intended to do and they made it work.

Take your article on serial ports in C#[^] I thought it was a good solution to a poorly implemented feature. MS never intended to include support for the serial port it was added as an afterthought. I was with a colleague where we spoke with reps from MS back when .NET was introduced and there was no support for the serial port, their reply was "Who uses those?" um, er, well... we do.... What they finally offered up was poorly implemented with barely a mention as to how to use it. Articles like yours are a clever solution that is elegant and quite usable.

You generated the usual controversy of language A vs. any other language. Any language, even with their flaws are used by developers that earn a living developing in that language. To flame a language or to dismiss it as a platform for fools infers that those who use it are fools, however, even fools do not want to be called fools and have a tendency take offense. I know that was not your intent, but it seems that was the result. I took no offense and will often join in the VB sucks mantra, but there isn't a language that is above being disparaged for some reason.
It was broke, so I fixed it.

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