> One should naturally wonder why that much memory is required to display a simple string of text. Its not but by and large when people open a .NET project the

> One should naturally wonder why that much memory is required to display a simple string of text. Its not but by and large when people open a .NET project they want to do more than just print text, hence the inclusion of many .NET assemblies that enable the programmer to perform a variety of tasks. If your only task is to print text then yes, its the wrong tool for the job.