[13foxtrot]

The benefits of .NET are awesome, especially for websites... Nothing like populating a datagrid with a few lines of code..

Meanwhile...Inside MS .Net has lost its shine as well. I expect .Net to go the way of OLE, COM, asp, COM++, etc. and morph into something new in a couple of years.

Thankfully, a few years ago I graduated to perl which pretty much hasn't changed on me once. (I wasn't perlling during perl 4 days)

[Bush2000]

Meanwhile...Inside MS .Net has lost its shine as well. I expect .Net to go the way of OLE, COM, asp, COM++, etc. and morph into something new in a couple of years.

Not according to friends of mine that work at MS; in fact, much of the OS infrastructure will be rewritten in managed code over time.

Thankfully, a few years ago I graduated to perl which pretty much hasn't changed on me once. (I wasn't perlling during perl 4 days)

Perl has its uses, but it's not what you would call an application development language.