Completely agree. This author, to put it politely, is an idiot. I hope he never uses object orientation or design patterns since those ideas fall into precisely the same trap - they are designed to enable solutions to be churned out more quickly, relying on the idea that a lot of solutions comprise similar components, like a Presenter, or a Repository. This leads to easier development, easier unit testing, faster development, easier maintenance and likely lower costs and risk for everyone involved. Its pretty much the same with .Net itself - it can allow you to do more in a short space of time precisely because MS had a look at what most people do, and realized it could speed these things up.
I'll bet he gets all of his coders to code in vi or vim because its "better" the old fashioned way.
) Article is a total cr@p of diletant. ".NET" is not a cent less serious than any Java/LISP/C++/whatever. Just the fact that smth made VERY EASY in .NET doesn't mean it's a toy - it's just EASY TOOL. But statement "make a 1.7 oz burger, you simply can’t" is a really foolish blah-blah. I wrote on .NET a lot of stuff, from stupid "one-form-converter" till banking system - just imagine how many different stuff I had to use! EVERYTHING were in .NET; So that "David Barrett" is just an "office-ass", spending somebody's money and our time.
