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  • S Single Step Debugger

    Here is my list: 1. XML (Both human and computer have difficulties reading this crap. It's slow as dismembered turtle. Also the tools and accompanying technologies related to XML are crap too. Only Java use to have some dissent XML libraries, but Java is dead for good, so no much use of these.) 2. Web Services (Spawn of the devil. Working with this gives you a depression. .Net tools are not so bad. SOAP is a good protocol. But the entre thing is hit and miss situation. Definitely the result not worth the effort, except for some specific cases.) 3. COM (I have more than a decade long, love-hate relationship with COM. Very useful in some cases, but PITA most of the time. Really steep learning curve.) 4. MFC (Haven't evolved a bit(pun not intended) for the last 15 years.)

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    JVM C++14

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    • S Single Step Debugger

      Here is my list: 1. XML (Both human and computer have difficulties reading this crap. It's slow as dismembered turtle. Also the tools and accompanying technologies related to XML are crap too. Only Java use to have some dissent XML libraries, but Java is dead for good, so no much use of these.) 2. Web Services (Spawn of the devil. Working with this gives you a depression. .Net tools are not so bad. SOAP is a good protocol. But the entre thing is hit and miss situation. Definitely the result not worth the effort, except for some specific cases.) 3. COM (I have more than a decade long, love-hate relationship with COM. Very useful in some cases, but PITA most of the time. Really steep learning curve.) 4. MFC (Haven't evolved a bit(pun not intended) for the last 15 years.)

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      mwmp
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      1. Internet Explorer 2. Internet Explorer 3. Internet Explorer 4. Windows Server 5. Windows Phone 6. Apple (iOS, OS X, ...) 7. Visual Basic

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      • S Single Step Debugger

        Here is my list: 1. XML (Both human and computer have difficulties reading this crap. It's slow as dismembered turtle. Also the tools and accompanying technologies related to XML are crap too. Only Java use to have some dissent XML libraries, but Java is dead for good, so no much use of these.) 2. Web Services (Spawn of the devil. Working with this gives you a depression. .Net tools are not so bad. SOAP is a good protocol. But the entre thing is hit and miss situation. Definitely the result not worth the effort, except for some specific cases.) 3. COM (I have more than a decade long, love-hate relationship with COM. Very useful in some cases, but PITA most of the time. Really steep learning curve.) 4. MFC (Haven't evolved a bit(pun not intended) for the last 15 years.)

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        Steve Naidamast
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        Except for web-services, I have to agree with the original post. However, I believe he should have added JavaScript to his list. VBScript was a far more sophisticated client-side scripting language than Java will ever be and was very well documented in comparison. JavaScript has also promoted a host of redundant frameworks, which offer little in the way of benefit for using them over standard implementations while adding a lot more bloated code to the front-end...

        Steve Naidamast Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com

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        • S Single Step Debugger

          Here is my list: 1. XML (Both human and computer have difficulties reading this crap. It's slow as dismembered turtle. Also the tools and accompanying technologies related to XML are crap too. Only Java use to have some dissent XML libraries, but Java is dead for good, so no much use of these.) 2. Web Services (Spawn of the devil. Working with this gives you a depression. .Net tools are not so bad. SOAP is a good protocol. But the entre thing is hit and miss situation. Definitely the result not worth the effort, except for some specific cases.) 3. COM (I have more than a decade long, love-hate relationship with COM. Very useful in some cases, but PITA most of the time. Really steep learning curve.) 4. MFC (Haven't evolved a bit(pun not intended) for the last 15 years.)

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          Gary Huck
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            java. It's terrible. MySQL. It's terrible (which is strange considering it is from Oracle) XML is, more or less OK although this does depend on the need. Here we work with CSV, ASCII, xls and FITS files all with their good and bad and worse formats, so here it's not technology itself, but rather how they use it. Linux. Some swear by it, I hate it. openoffice/libreoffice. :doh: open office is probably all right, but libre office? :wtf: iTunes. They should execute the humans involved in this piece of cr*p. Most technologies are OK depending on how you use them.

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            my thoughts entirely V

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            • J Jeremy Falcon

              I'm too busy having a life to actually hate a piece of software. Although, if I were to say something off the top of my head I'd imagine most things you can find on CNET are a pile of dung.

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              _WinBase_
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              a life? - i'm a programmer, never heard of one of those

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              • S Single Step Debugger

                Here is my list: 1. XML (Both human and computer have difficulties reading this crap. It's slow as dismembered turtle. Also the tools and accompanying technologies related to XML are crap too. Only Java use to have some dissent XML libraries, but Java is dead for good, so no much use of these.) 2. Web Services (Spawn of the devil. Working with this gives you a depression. .Net tools are not so bad. SOAP is a good protocol. But the entre thing is hit and miss situation. Definitely the result not worth the effort, except for some specific cases.) 3. COM (I have more than a decade long, love-hate relationship with COM. Very useful in some cases, but PITA most of the time. Really steep learning curve.) 4. MFC (Haven't evolved a bit(pun not intended) for the last 15 years.)

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                Thornik
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                +1 to XML and COM And +100 to all MS bullsh!t like Azure, SharePoint, WCF. And +1000 to all stupids writing on PHP - most horrible language ever.

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                • D den2k88

                  .NET It is sluggish, heavy and the framework is poorly documented. The learning curve is way steeper than the COM one, considering that many framework classes are encapsulated COM this shouldn't surprise anyone.

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                  Thornik
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                  Poorly documented? 3GB of help files are POOR? Dude, you're just troll.

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                  • S Slacker007

                    Deyan Georgiev wrote:

                    but Java is dead for good

                    I don't know what planet you are coding on, but I assure you, Java is not dead.

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                    Thornik
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                    Java is not dead like "Rolling Stones are forever" - yes, while exist oldfags to scream about it. Real life moves forward and Java just sit and watches for C# on the horizon!

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                    • F Fabio Franco

                      I agree with you in everything but Linux. I love it, wish I knew more about it and like to play around with it from time to time. It's a playground for me, doing something different from time to time.

                      To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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                      Thornik
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                      Linux is nice, while you do NOTHING IMPORTANT - like keeping home server with 3 html pages. Once you need to do the job, Linux converts to the time machine and EATS YOUR TIME! Not even twice I tried to make something and caught myself making everything, but the work: update libraries, install missing packages, playing with settings, forcing some device to work, etc. - it's unix way - to waste time for nothing.

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                      • Kornfeld Eliyahu PeterK Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

                        The ringing isn't the problem, but when some-one asks me to transfer the call I'm starting to sweat...

                        Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

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                        you can transfer a call ? :omg: Yup I hate phones too and practice myself in getting to know absolutely nothing about them. I went as far as press 0 for an outside line... (or 9, sometimes it´s 9, right?)

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                          a life? - i'm a programmer, never heard of one of those

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                          yeah, contradiction in terms ;P

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                          • T Thornik

                            Poorly documented? 3GB of help files are POOR? Dude, you're just troll.

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                            They may be even 30 GB of help files, the way it is documented is poor. Yes, there are all the signatures of the functions and the members of the classes, wow, much useful - except that there is no info on what each class does, except for some of them. Should I use System.Windows.Controls.Image or System.Drawing.Image or System.Windows.Imaging.BitmapImage? How can I convert between one of the above to another of them? Why can't I show a BitmapImage in a control and I hav to copy-wrap-mangle with them? Not documented. It says: here the members, here the methods signatures, go flock yourself. And I do: I use native and Win32 APIs, which are faster, well documented and thoroughly known.

                            Geek code v 3.12 GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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                            • T Thornik

                              Java is not dead like "Rolling Stones are forever" - yes, while exist oldfags to scream about it. Real life moves forward and Java just sit and watches for C# on the horizon!

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                              Thornik wrote:

                              oldfags

                              4chan-er perhaps?

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                              • S Single Step Debugger

                                Here is my list: 1. XML (Both human and computer have difficulties reading this crap. It's slow as dismembered turtle. Also the tools and accompanying technologies related to XML are crap too. Only Java use to have some dissent XML libraries, but Java is dead for good, so no much use of these.) 2. Web Services (Spawn of the devil. Working with this gives you a depression. .Net tools are not so bad. SOAP is a good protocol. But the entre thing is hit and miss situation. Definitely the result not worth the effort, except for some specific cases.) 3. COM (I have more than a decade long, love-hate relationship with COM. Very useful in some cases, but PITA most of the time. Really steep learning curve.) 4. MFC (Haven't evolved a bit(pun not intended) for the last 15 years.)

                                There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet! Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                                9082365
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                                So, in summary ... I hate my job. I really, really hate my job. Won't someone just get me outta here. Fix the lottery! Or shoot me ... that works too! ... ?

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                                  you can transfer a call ? :omg: Yup I hate phones too and practice myself in getting to know absolutely nothing about them. I went as far as press 0 for an outside line... (or 9, sometimes it´s 9, right?)

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                                  Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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                                  I have a check list to do so! 1. Calm down 2. Hit the 'Transfer call' button 3. Calm down 4. Enter number 5. Calm down 6. Put down the phone 7. Calm down

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                                  • M Marc Clifton

                                    You should never work with me if you have that opinion of XML. :) But to answer your question: television, the destroyer of both the social fabric of society and the people's will and intellectual ability to do something about, well anything and everything. Marc

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                                    rnbergren
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                                    here here. Television is the bane of all civilization.

                                    To err is human to really mess up you need a computer

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                                    • S Single Step Debugger

                                      Here is my list: 1. XML (Both human and computer have difficulties reading this crap. It's slow as dismembered turtle. Also the tools and accompanying technologies related to XML are crap too. Only Java use to have some dissent XML libraries, but Java is dead for good, so no much use of these.) 2. Web Services (Spawn of the devil. Working with this gives you a depression. .Net tools are not so bad. SOAP is a good protocol. But the entre thing is hit and miss situation. Definitely the result not worth the effort, except for some specific cases.) 3. COM (I have more than a decade long, love-hate relationship with COM. Very useful in some cases, but PITA most of the time. Really steep learning curve.) 4. MFC (Haven't evolved a bit(pun not intended) for the last 15 years.)

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                                      rnbergren
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                                      to pick the best of what has been said already. Television - worst invention for civilization to move forward ever! iTunes - worst software ever consumed and sticks.

                                      To err is human to really mess up you need a computer

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                                      • D den2k88

                                        They may be even 30 GB of help files, the way it is documented is poor. Yes, there are all the signatures of the functions and the members of the classes, wow, much useful - except that there is no info on what each class does, except for some of them. Should I use System.Windows.Controls.Image or System.Drawing.Image or System.Windows.Imaging.BitmapImage? How can I convert between one of the above to another of them? Why can't I show a BitmapImage in a control and I hav to copy-wrap-mangle with them? Not documented. It says: here the members, here the methods signatures, go flock yourself. And I do: I use native and Win32 APIs, which are faster, well documented and thoroughly known.

                                        Geek code v 3.12 GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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                                        Thornik
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                                        I agree that MSDN is not the best _teaching_ resource, but at least it has everything what .NET has! Above that there is a lot of sites (like StackOverflow) where you can get answer on almost everything - including your Bitmaps. So it's just lie ".NET is poorly documented" - it has A LOT of docs, just google what you need. For 10 years on .NET I had may be 2-3 questions which had no answer, all other problems was resolved quickly. Today .NET is the best platform I know - far better than Java, Swift or whatever. And it's related tools too - VS stay one step above all those Eclipse/ItelliJ/SharpDevelop/NetBeans craftworks.

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                                        • S Slacker007

                                          Thornik wrote:

                                          oldfags

                                          4chan-er perhaps?

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                                          Thornik
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                                          Nope, just ironic word Russians borrow to describe old guy, who lives in a previous century and doesn't want to live in an actual time, ignoring modern culture, things, etc. They think "everything great" was made only by his generation. Java is the same story - people who study it 15 years ago just stopped in progress - they still think programming is writing 100-LOCs to save CSV data. Hardly they will make something meaningful nowadays!

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