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Re: To whoever wants to be my new best friend:

Elmar Langholz — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:45:14 -0000

I can vouch for the house fan and the House addicts anonymous. Once you get him started, there is no going back :P

Re: Eric Meijer invented dumb.

Elmar Langholz — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:11:13 -0000

I definitely agree. There is a tendency to hype up languages which we like and have developed code for them, especially if we helped implement key features (http://research.microsoft.com/~emeijer/Papers/P...). I guess this sort of behavior comes from a feeling of belonging as one would have with our children.

BTW, I couldn't agree more with the IsNot patent! I'm all about trying to avoid these type rocks on the road.

Re: C#: -100, Java: +1 (?!)

Elmar Langholz — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:45:41 -0000

Check it, more on what the team has to say about C#:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mattwar/archive/2005/10/0...

Re: How to convince people you have no clue what you are talking about

Elmar Langholz — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:17:04 -0000

If I only had a cent for every time I've seen these responses I would definitely share my fortune with you. I ran into a similar issue recently and just responded the thread, in an eloquent manner, by writing the answer in one line and asking the "holier than thou" individual to keep the responses low on propaganda. I could rant on saying that the multiple references to his/her books denote low self esteem issues and his/her alleged acquired bragging rights shouldn't be pushed down everyone's throat for his own satisfaction... After all, if others were interested on his background they could just google him up. In the end I will say this: It doesn't matter where you're from or what you've done but what you've contributed to the solution. Keep It Simple Stupid or go write more books, it's simple as that!
Good research my friend!

Re: andoid tomorrow!

Elmar Langholz — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:40:38 -0000

Amen to that brother!
I have to say I definitely agree with much that you have kindly explained. Having myself programmed for WinMo 6/6.1 (C# and C++), Android 0.9 SDK (Java) and currently iPhone firmware 2.1 (Objective-C), I have to say that by far the worst experience as a user and developer has been with the WinMo. The funny part here is that you can only use Windows and Visual Studio to code for WinMo, Mac and Xcode to code for the iPhone but you can use Eclipse in cross platforms in order to code apps for Android. sweet! However, due to the fact that most people willing to pay for software which has a GUI that rocks and doesn't have those large sleep(3000) (which also happen in Android 0.9) I just decided to stick with the iPhone which is currently way slicker and faster than the competition.
I have to agree that the software that Android has working correctly does have a good quality but still has some security issues as well as others. However, I can't wait to try Chrome on Android.
Keep us posted if you develop something interesting. Maybe you could use some extra hands. :)