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Can't buy me love

Everybody tells me so

Can't buy me love

No no no no no

Can't buy me love

Everybody tells me so

Can't buy me love

No no no no no

The past week has been interesting. The bug bit me to begin programming again, this time with C#, one of Microsoft's languages that replaced Visual Basic.

As is so often the case when I begin something new, I've devoted more than enough hours each day to my quest. It's not that the language is difficult. I do have things to learn, but I already know C and have more than a nodding acquaintance with C++, my preferred language, so the concepts will just take some time.

The libraries are huge, though, and when I start something I like to see some type of result right now. So I spend more time than I think I should to get up to speed so I can accomplish something I see as useful. When you're starting from scratch to learn a new set of libraries, getting results right now doesn't happen. It takes time...

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