Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, at 05:23 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:

On Aug 25, 2016, at 6:13 PM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

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That pretty much sums up lots of the web and early DotNet stuff!!!! I swear sometimes it seems like these uber-nerds create things to be so complex simply because they can.

That was always the Microsoft way: take something and make it so complex that you needed their tools to manage it. Look at FrontPage, or what they did to SOAP for the obvious examples.

-- Ed Leafe

Web development didn't need Microsoft to get itself into its current hellishly complicated state. .NET isn't and wasn't any more complex than any other comparable platform like Java.