I'm sure there are those who would disagree with me on this, but I've found Adobe Flex an absolute joy to work with. It certainly has it's limitations, but it's

I'm sure there are those who would disagree with me on this, but I've found Adobe Flex an absolute joy to work with. It certainly has it's limitations, but it's so easy to make your application just plain 'look great'. It only took me a few months before I really felt like I understood everything about the underlying architecture. I love programming in it now. Of course, once a person feels comfortable with virtually any LISP dialect, they usually LOVE it.