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CodeWraith8-Aug-17 20:00
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Marc Clifton wrote:
like, who the heck uses log4net anymore
I do. It seems to be my fate to keep 20+ year old application that have been ported to .Net alive. Often enough I'm hapy that a single library for loging has been used (at least most of the time).

My own code also tends to get as old as a turtle and I would not be doing very much anymore if I always was ripping out libraries that are not fashionable enough anymore. Even Microsoft's efforts to drain all fun and motivation from those projects by changing everything, only to sell us yet another windows version, has not made me do that. The more they make me feel like a donkey that's being baited with a carrot, the less I'm inclined to play along. Don't fix it as long as it's not broken.
I need a perfect, to the point answer as I am not aware of this.
Please don't reply explaining what method overloading is


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