YAOS = Yet Another Operating System

Use both documentation and code samples found throughout the Internet.

Mac OS X is a port from NextStep which in turn is a port from BSD. Apple bought NextStep when Steve Jobs came bac to Apple. Objective-C is C with some SmallTalk. XCode and Interface Builder were part of NextStep. Java which is based from SmallTalk, was developed by Sun Micro Systems and NextStep. Microsoft Winows NT was developed by programmers from DEC, who had the VAX VMS operating system.

Back in the day I owned a Commodore computer and an Atari computer, then I moved to the PC and have been on those since (DOS and Windows). I programmed in Borland C/C++ and then Visual Studio .NET (VB and C#). A year ago I switched out my home PC computers with Macs. I have not regretted this since. I am currently learning Objective-C (XCode and Interface Builder). All I can say is that with the recent advances in smartphones and tablets by Apple and Google, Microsoft has been left out in the cold. Will Windows 8 succeed when it comes out in the autumn of 2012? I am going to say, "No".

Yes, I agree. It is a crappy platform for business apps. For instance it took me three months to develop a gift card system using WinForms. I have a third party software - common remitting - that runs on a web server. It took the programmers one and a half years to develop it. They used ASP.NET. WinForms using ADO.NET, or a web browser based app calling a web server running ASP.NET using ADO.NET. Which is better?

I did some ASP programming, but that was to add features. It wasn't very much. Other than that, I am in an environment that doesn't require webpage design or webpage development. I am fine about that. I would rather program using WinForms or Mac programs. There are two web servers at my company with third party software. There is quite a difference in WinForm programs and web based programs. I don't have the patience to teach myself all of the HTML, XHTML, XSL, XML, and CSS tags. Plus I don't have the patience to learn ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, or whatever else there is. Besides, a column and row flat based file is smaller and faster to read in and write to, than an XML file with it's tree like structure. XML requires a complex parser to extract the data. That is a lot of CPU cycles.

I know what HTML is, and I know this this webpage is formated in HTML and probably along with XML. But this webpage was actually done dynamically through either ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, or something similar. I will leave web development to those who like to format pages. I like developing WinForms or Mac applications. That is my preference. Same goes with game development. I know little about it, however, I will leave it to those who enjoy it.

I know little of HTML. It is not a programming language, but only used for formatting pages. Why bother with it anyway?