I'm Managed, I'm Bored

Saturday, January 3, 2004

With each of the posts on the DevX Forums, there is a link to "report this post to a moderator". I guess I'll add a similiar facility to each article published here - "report this page to the authorities", or "report this code sample to Wrox Publishing's legal department" - see, voluntary cooperation just enhances my value-added personality. Oh, this "managed living" that used to be Life.

For Whidbey, VB.NET will get operator overloading (it seems). Anything goes, and now it's obvious even to me that languages are becoming a commodity. What's more embarrassing is the "My" namespace, with its resurrection of implicit hidden global properties returning default form instances, and its general kindergarten approach to programming. Isn't the .NET framework simple enough? Not that I'm opposed to convenience features, but part of the art of programming is to spot patterns, and wrap up the awkward, and do so on your own.