It cheats with homonyms! impune? nope! they said "impugn". desolatory? nope! they said "desultory".

I think it would be pretty annoying to migrate to a different syntax but with all the same class names (like in your 'List' example). And I've never found VS to be that great with jQuery (maybe I have it set up wrong). To answer your question, yes, I'd be fine with that. But, since you brought up the subject I'd much rather do HTML and C#, like this:

using System;

/// code here
/// body as screen?

protected void MyCSharpFunction()
{
    myWindow.minimize();
}



   

      
          
      
   

   

       TEXT EDITOR?

Are A, B and C all different object types that equate differently?

Ever tried writing dynamic (X/HT)ML?

Dim header =

<%= publicationdate %>

That's a lot easier than anything in C#. Stringbuilders, XMLwriters, whatever... doesn't beat VB.NET's XML Literals.

same here

Took me a minute to understand but I get it. Thanks very much! [EDIT] and a few minutes later it seems all too obvious and I get mad for not thinking of it. :)

I'm not even sure how to ask the question, hah. I want two classes: User:

public class User
{
private List groups = new List();
public List Groups
{
get { return groups; }
}
//constructor selects groups from database, populates "groups" with new Group()
}

and Group:

public class Group
{
private List users = new List();
public List Users
{
get { return users; }
}
//constructor selects users from database, populates "users" with new User()
}

Say I have a Group "All Users". When I initialize a User I assume I'm going to get an out-of-memory error. Not that anyone would want to do this, but you should be able to do this:

User u = new User();
u.Groups["All Users"].Users[u.Username].Groups["All Users"].Users[u.Username] /*...*/;

If anyone could help I'd appreciate it.

Richard Blythe wrote:

reflection. (Performance hit)

I'm writing the third version of my own CMS. I don't use attributes, but I do use reflection to load third-party dll's on every page load, in case they want to run some analytics code, or run extra authentication/authorization stuff. I have yet to complete it, but I don't expect the performance hit to be bad. We'll see I guess.

I've coded in both and I think that ASP.NET should be used for any application that will be continued to be developed on after you're gone. If you code ASP.NET applications right, they'll be more understandable. Its more the same argument of why ASP.NET is better than classic ASP. No spaghetti code. Microsoft knows enterprise development. On the other hand, "quick and dirty, done right" should be the motto of PHP. I love using AJAX with PHP (this was before the 3.5 Framework came out). I prefer generating tables from code rather than dinking around with configuring a repeater control. BUT! When the next developer gets his hands on my code, he or she is gonna need to understand it as fast as possible, which is why I code in ASP.NET now. -Anton

Exactly.

Thanks for the replies! I decided that a third monitor would make me a bit more productive, and, digitalman is right about being crazy to turn down a new computer. New computer specs (the University goes with Dell): Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Intel Core2 Quad 4GB ram New 24" widescreen monitor 512MB Nvidia 4-DVI port graphics card 160gb 10k rpm sata drive

I was asked if I wanted a new computer. The one I have is admittedly old (5 years old), but works like a champ. Windows XP, Pentium 4 with hyperthreading, 2.5GB ram, dual monitors. It runs concurrently VS2008, outlook, firefox, antivirus, sql server management studio and whatever else I happen to have open just fine. If it ain't broke, don't fix it? Or is it broke simply because its old? I could get a laptop and docking station and that would give me some mobility and probably equivalent performance. On the other hand it would be a Windows 7 machine and I'd have to deal with switching costs and invest the time it takes to set up a new machine. Also, I get annoyed by transparent windows. I work at a University, so the next time they ask me would be next year around this time. Not sure what to do, any suggestions?

http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Quantumland-Allegory-Quantum-Physics/dp/0387914951[^] Alice In Quantumland. It's a quick read and good for the layman.

HTML, CSS and javascript. cheap as free and runs in any browser. tutorials at http://w3schools.com Basic game: Image object, move it around, give it behavior at some point in the playing field. For more (advanced) ideas, google Chrome Experiments

haha, nice, i completely forgot about the nightmare that is regex

Just for reference: XML = eXtensible Markup Language XHTML = eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language the W3C considers XPath a language, check their website. asp.net is admittedly a framework, but its just like html with tag namespaces, and should be considered an independent language. CSS is a stylesheet language, here is a PhD paper on stylesheet languages from the Opera website: http://people.opera.com/howcome/2006/phd/[^]

Structured Query Language.

For example, maybe you've heard of google apps? maybe not?

whatever you want to call them. scripting syntaxes. the point was stated: the number of them is absurd. Give me a break.

So I just finished a portion of a web application I'm writing, and I decided to count how many different languages I've used in this one aspx page. xhtml for the structure css for the display javascript for client side functionality xml for a modified treeview control xpath to navigate the modified treeview control c# for code behind asp.net for master pages and user controls sql for a gridview Things are pretty absurd for web developers. How many languages are you guys responsible for? -frattaro