Careless .NET article writer
There’s an article on MSDN about the Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now, and while I agree with most of their statements, I have a couple of things to say…
I would add ReSharper to the list of programs every .NET developer should download right now, of course. I can’t imagine not being able to refactor my code with a couple of mouse clicks, or renaming a variable everywhere it appears in my program intelligently and quickly… thanks to Ryan for showing it to me in the first place.
Second, there’s this sentence down where the article discusses Lutz Roeder’s .NET Reflector... “The .NET Framework introduced the world to the concept of reflection…” Hello? Java much?
This kind of thing pisses me off.
July 26th, 2004 at 5:35 pm
Reflection is a Smalltalk feature.
Funny enough .NET Reflector is not even using the Reflection capabilities built into the .NET Framework.
July 27th, 2004 at 12:27 am
Thank goodness we have Microsoft to introduce us to technologies that are thirty years old or else we might be living in the programming Dark Ages.
July 28th, 2004 at 3:43 pm
Same for Apple and the computer (30 years).
Same for Linux and operating systems (30 years).
Same for Netscape and the internet (30 years).
That’s the way it goes. Technologies take decades from the research table into broad market usage and in the process they change a lot.
July 28th, 2004 at 3:46 pm
BTW: The dark ages lasted multiple centuries. For someone looking at programming in 2250 we might as well have lived in the “dark ages” for the last 30 years and still are…
July 28th, 2004 at 11:33 pm
Imagine what the Renaissance is going to look like. Yeesh. ( ;