depends on you're definition of an hobbyist, been working commercial wise for 26 years now. but he who am i. the problem is that I've had to work with to many coworkers that make judgement on stuff without really knowing what there judging on. assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.

hahhahaah, just as i said, as simple as need be, don't write a hole framework to display a button with a gradient in it. i'll send an ascii representation of my spreadsheet application ;) |__1__|__2__|__3__| here are the cells ;) haven't you been in a project where base functionality requirements are simple but the implementation of it has completely gone of scope coz the senior was sooo happy with all is generic code libs and framework modules.

dear mister shog, i don't know if you ever been abused by a vb programmer, but what is the f*cking use of the reaction it ads no additional insight in the real question... should multi threading be avoided when possible. so please refrain from talking if it not useful ! (o yeah I'm not only a vb programmer, i do c, c++, c#, java, vb, php) life would be beautiful if other ppl won't try to disrupt the sheer beauty of it. o yeah, I'm a firm believer that a lot of programmers like to make code more complicated, just to make it interesting for other programmers to look at, but has no functional benefit whatsoever. so the sentence is correct only, if it should be in this article .. no it just a good practice to make code as simple as it needs to be. -- modified at 1:52 Friday 16th November, 2007