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- From: jeffl@inter-intelli.com (Jeff Lindholm)
- Subject: Re: VC++ 4.0 question and rantings
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- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 20:51:51 GMT
-
- Well I do somewhat the samething. I don't use the class wizard to do
- much except fill in the messages for me initially. I then remove all
- the extra comments (and will have to add all the exta 'free' stuff by
- hand from there on out). I do this because after I looked through the
- code I understood what the constructs where and how they were used, so
- using Microsoft to generate the busy work I know I am going to need I
- can get away with this. This means I now have a class wizard database
- and don't have the problem you state. You may want to try this
- approach.
-
- This of course won't work as well if you are doing all your make files
- from scratch.
- I think I rambled enough.
- Jeff
-
- Eric Minor <EricX_Minor@ccm.sc.intel.com> wrote:
-
- >
-
-
- >1) Relying on the wizards to generate the code removes me too
- > far from the knowledge of what is making the code run.
- > Some human needs to understand the inner workings of the
- > underlying code otherwise any decent sized project becomes an
- > unmaintainable morass of mystery code (IMO). (Sidebar: ThatÆs
- > kind of my complaint against 4GL tools also: Do they abstract
- > the developer too far away from the knowledge of what lies
- > beneath? And no I donÆt recommend going back to assembler :^) )
-
- >2) I like my code clean and neat. If you use wizards, they must
- > necessarily junk up the code with extraneous commenting that
- > helps them to keep track of everything (sections for handler
- > functions, virtual functions, etc.)
-
- [snip]
-
- >Thanks,
-
- >Eric Minor
-
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