Even the Development world is Round…

So now with the market advent of Microsoft .NET 3.0, the diffusion of the the ‘example videos’ and sample tutorials is rampant. In particular I’ve been reading a little about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The WPF is basically a fusion of concepts from winforms and asp.net (a la XAML) in that the controls are declared for line of business type applications (smart/thick client apps) using an Xml-ish markup language. Something that seems like a joke to me (though it’s a welcome addition, like an old friend) is this ‘new’ idea they have for these things called ‘commands.’ Now get this… commands are event handlers… They can be fired from anywhere, and when you call one, it executes the code in the event handler! Amazing! I can’t help but think… They used to have something like this way back in the stone age of programming; I think it’s called “Procedure Oriented Programming!” So, we see that even the programming world is round, and even though we’ve sailed pretty far we’re not really in exotic India afterall, just somewhere off the coast of Florida… so watch out for hurricaines!