[GD-General] tools language/framework [was: Eiffel and whatnot]

[Ivan-Assen I. <as...@ha...>]

Just to throw a couple of drops of gasoline in the fire:

I've been looking quite a bit lately in the .NET/C# stuff and it seems a very nice environment
for quick tools development. You can whip up a GUI for a tool with it in minutes, not hours,
it has extensive support for XML and a perl-compatible regexp library for those text files you haven't
yet moved to XML. Executables run fairly fast, and launch instantly (e.g. unlike Java class files).
It has all kinds of nice toys in the library - both low-level (think sockets) and high-level (think
FetchWhateverIsAtThisURLIntoThisString()) network functions, runtime code generation & compilation,
a much cleaned-up GDI (GDI+), threading stuff etc.

And it's less drastic a change than moving your tools to OS X and installing Macs everywhere :-)