re: Yet another C# problem

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It's hilarious how they still make people write console applications just to make sure they gain no useful skills in the class.

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I think you're drawing a distinction where there isn't much of one. Classes teach the basics of programming (make something that works) first without burdening students with too much at once. Why bother with GUI shite if you don't even know how to write a loop?

Also, I think you discount the usefulness of console apps. Not only are they still extremely useful and more powerful than any GUI app in the Linux world, but there's not a huge difference between an app that gets parameters from the console and one that get parameters over the network. It wouldn't take much to convert OP's app into a server that could handle requests from any front end, whether it's a web app, or a desktop GUI, or a mobile app.