Goodbye Hello World

A subset of the things I have learned today:

1. The .NET Framework v.1.1 SDK does not include the .NET Framework. You must obtain it separately.
2. In C#, Class-with-a-big-C is not the same thing as class-with-a-little-c. These two words are nigh indistinguishable in the standard Windows command prompt font when you're not wearing your glasses.
3. "del test.cs" is not the same as "del test.exe". Your computer doesn't understand what you meant. Fortunately, I'd erased nothing more than a hello world program.
4. Visual Studio spoils you so much that one could spend upwards of an full hour (in between fighting other fires) trying to recall from memory how to correctly wrap "System.Console.WriteLine("Hello world");" so that csc will compile it without complaining. Namespaces are the Devil. I still don't know what "[STAThread]" means.
5. Idiots in nice suits can and will fuck your best-laid plans to hell in under 2 minutes just because they want to. Eating lunch at 3 PM is surprisingly pleasant because there are no lines in the cafeteria.
6. Always check your e-mail before you send a new message. The nasty e-mail I sent at 3:40 PM was directly in regards to the whereabouts of the information they'd already sent me at 3:38.