If I get the theme of this right - Your only a proper developer if you are writing code for yourself - those getting paid for it "suck". .NET 2002 was aimed a

If I get the theme of this right - Your only a proper developer if you are writing code for yourself - those getting paid for it "suck". .NET 2002 was aimed at programmers who suck and did not support the C++ "gods" of programming who were well served by the Win32 API. Oh no - now Win32 and Win64 are broken as well. I rather gave up then on this "Oh I'm great post" at about that point. Surely, our task is to write excellent software that will be used - we target the platforms our customers have selected (good or bad) because that's where they are. Professionals are entitled to be critical of specific (or even all) platforms but critical or not we have to live in the real world. Say what you like about Microsoft operating systems (all down hill since Win 2000 if you ask me but...) the guys at MS who build the programming tools and Visual Studio are second to none.