Why does this silliness continue?

Aren't we the smart ones, we technical people?

Jeff Richter is one of the most respected VC++ people in the world, he says the rote line 'All languages are equal' but he also says that 'C# is the better tool'. He said that flat out to me over dinner at a WinDev. Human. He has his followers who hear only the part they want to hear to make themselves feel special. Human.

Founder of APress and Desaware, Dan Appleman is an older C++ veteran, I believe that he has a bit more real-world experience with a lot of different tools than most of us have (including Mr. Richter). And after some analysis he says about the bits and bytes "There is no difference at all"

We got a few emails over our saying that "users really don't care that much about speed any more" when we were making points for Flash development.

In context we stand by the statement.

Don't get us wrong, we've loved ASP.Net since before the betas, it's a natural and intuitive technology for a long-time VB person. However, ASP.Net is just what its name implies, it is a Serverside technology. If speed were the absolute measure of a good end-user application then so many developers wouldn't be drag & dropping so many ASP.Net controls on so many pages and calling the job "Done", letting every single control postback to the server and roundtrip 99% unchanged information - and worse, hitting a database with each trip for nothing ...