Those who knew me at Airborne Interactive know that I am really a Linux guru and I used to hate all this Microsoft. I’ve changed a little - only a little now. I have an XBox 360 now, and I even paid for a copy of Windows Vista (shock horror!). I like Microsoft Visual Studio, I like C#. .NET is a great invention, a massive set of libraries that allow you to do many laborious tasks that you have to do manually in C/C++. There’s less control over what’s going on, but for the starter programmer, its a good place.
My major gripe is ASP.NET. Now I’ve not done classic ASP before, but I have done tonnes of PHP. ASP.NET is absolutely dismal in my opinion. ASP.NET is just C# (or VB, but who uses VB these days?) — which is a Windows application language — pretending to be a web development language. It really really doesn’t work.
