RE: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users -- MIDRANGE-L

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James H H Lampert
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:20 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users

>>From a programmers POV, Microsoft's software is top notch.

>And if you believe that, I've got some Iraqi hydrogen bombs
>you might be interested in.

What can I say, James, that is my judgement after 5 years experience coding
in Windows. ( FWIW I give similar high praise to programming on the as400 )
C# and VB are easy to learn, the win32 api is very well done, C++ is a great
language and the visual studio editor is as extensible as you want to make
it.

Now be aware I am commenting only on windows programming.  Deploying and
running a windows application can be a massive headache.  But I cant blame
MS for this.  Every problem I have ever found in my appls have been due to
my programming and design mistakes.

-Steve

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