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- From: thurman_b_miller@ccm2.hf.intel.com (Thurman Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: NT not written with MFC
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:46:10 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corporation
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- sasha@brooktree.com (Alex Bakaev) wrote:
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- >[deleted]
- >>If you are planning on
- >>writing applications for Windows or NT, I'd go with C++, strictly for
- >>the MFC library (Microsoft Foundation Class) which is the same source
- >>that Windows 95 & NT were written in.
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- >Utter rubbish. Show me at least one Win95 or Win NT component written
- >in MFC. Stop this mindless promotion of MFC, please. At least in the
- >C++ newsgroup.
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- >>Thurman
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- >Alex
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- I'm not trying to promote MFC. I'm a newbie to both C++ and MFC and
- was told this in class. If it is in error, then I apologize.
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- However, I would like to understand a little more. First off, I want
- to say that I am simply amazed by C++ and that it is definately a
- "programmer's programming language"! Completely awesome.
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- However, I was also surprised with MFC and with the work that
- Microsoft has put in it. Maybe you can clarify a few things for me:
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- 1. The CDC class for device contexts was done very well and I find it
- hard to believe that this was NOT used in writing the GUI for NT or
- Windows 95. Did they not use it because they wanted to optimize it?
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- 2. The document-view architecture ties so well to a frame based
- application that it makes so many operations trivial. It is so
- "Windows like", it seems like it was created for writing the GUI.
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- 3. Was C++ even used at all, or did they do it all in assembler?
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- Thanks for letting me know about the history. I won't make the error
- again.
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- Thurman
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