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- Subject: Re: cros-platform (mac-ms-windows) development
- Message-ID: <9602091929057787@gobio.escape.de>
- From: Bernd Gruendling <bernd@gobio.escape.de>
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 96 19:29:05 +0200
- References: <62S_8FLMnTB@softsite.co.at>
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- Organization: Bernd Gruendling
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- In article <62S_8FLMnTB@softsite.co.at>, Walter Sommergruber writes:
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- MS VC Cross Platform is expensive and you are limited to Windows and
- Macintosh, so I suggest to take a look at the ZINC Application
- Framework at
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- http://www.softsite.co.at/softsite/szince.htm (english)
- http://www.softsite.co.at/softsite/szinc.htm (german)
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- + Write one program and deliver it to DOS, Windows 3.11/95/NT,
- Macintosh, OS/2, Unix, Nextstep
- + persistance
- + source code included
- + multiple languages and locales at runtime
- + hides all the problems of the OS from you
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- Exactly. In my experience it hides all OS problems behind its own. I found
- working with Zinc very frustrating: very buggy, unusable tools and with a
- non-object-oriented design (I know the tell you the opposite).
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- I will never touch it again.
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- Bernd Gruendling.
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