Re: C#, .NET, VB.NET, Vista, etc. So What is the Point?

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:54:27 -0600, "John Jacobson"
<jake@j[nospam]snewsreader.com> wrote:

rambam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in message <87wtfiq185.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

And we would be fine without cars and planes and modern medicines.
Of course, our quality of life would be much worse.

Maybe, but our quality of life is *not* better with C#, .NET, VB.NET or Vista.

Actually John catches my gist to the letter. There are true
improvements out there, and there's junk put out there just to drive
sales. My 2 bladed razor works fine, why do I need the 5 bladed one?
Truthfully, I get a laugh everytime I see that advertised, because
it's just so patently ridiculous.

It's very applicable to the software world as well. When I was
actually able to work (read: when someone would hire me), there was
this program that kept getting upgraded every 6 months, and usually by
schedule of contract too. This company got the benefit of selling
these upgrades, when in reality version 1.0 would be totally perfect
for 99.99% of their clients. Yet there's this mindset that 1.0 would
never be good enough. Why did these companies ditch version 1.0 to go
on this 6 month upgrade schedule (yes it's like Borland's SA) to pay
for enhancements they never use? Good question.

And this is the same I'd say to the other person that responded to me
too. You're making an apples to oranges comparison. It's usually
silly to "upgrade" when there's no definite or substantial benefit in
doing so. And to bring this back to Delphi, that's why I'm still on
D3 (the first and only Windows environment I've ever procured). It
still works, and there's no definite or substantial benefit for me to
upgrade, especially given the extremely prohibitive cost, and the nil
return I would get from the investment.
.

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