>But for a lot of these things you live in one world or the other, and never the twain shall meet - and rightly or wrongly, my impression is that more interesti

>But for a lot of these things you live in one world or the other, and never the twain shall meet - and rightly or wrongly, my impression is that more interesting software gets written in the "HN stack" than in the "MS stack", which seems a lot more enterprise-oriented. Oh I agree! Writing HMIs for machinery can be very boring work, but someone has to do it, and since we pick the PCs for the machine we can simply choose windows and then we have no issues being bound to the Microsoft stack. I figure once I get more experience I can go find one of those dream jobs where I can use lots of different languages on a regular basis.