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justindz on June 14, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft ASP.net or Ruby on Rails?

I've always thought that ASP.NET was an attempt to get MFC programmers building web applications while avoiding re-training them on how to build web applications.

mpc on June 14, 2008 [–]

It is. They came up with the WinForms/WebForms abstraction to make building a .net desktop app or web app seem pretty much the same

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