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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com(Pete)
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- Subject: Re: MFC v.s. OWL class libraries
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 12:07:43 GMT
- Organization: Kalevi, Inc.
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- On Jan 04, 1996 20:52:57 in article <Re: MFC v.s. OWL class libraries>,
- 'Rob Stewart <stew@datalytics.com>' wrote:
-
- ..[ various mentions of MFC not being elegant and lacking in OO deleted]
-
- Having recently developed a set of classes to be used by
- others, I sympathize with MS and am now less critical of the
- shortcomings of MFC. I suspect that a major part of the design goal
- of MFC was to make its classes easy to use, even by programmers
- with little experience. To this extent, they have succeeded.
-
- OWL is undeniably technically superior to MFC, but is more
- difficult to use by Joe Bloe who's been programming all of
- 6 months now. Management knows this and (rightly so)
- chooses MFC over OWL as their development tool. The
- technical aspects of the class library are transparent in the
- final product.
-
- --
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Object Oriented Software Development
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