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- From: jrice@primenet.com (Jer)
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- Subject: Re: Good OWL Books
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 01:29:02 -0700
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- Francesco Fantauzzi <mapgfgf@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
-
- >pvonk@skidmore.edu (Pierre von Kaenel) wrote:
- >> [...]
- >>THis is a good question - one I'd like answered, since I don't want to >continue one "standard" when it is dying a slow death. My =
- >impression is >that MFC is becoming (if not already) THE standard. But there are still >a lot of OWL programmers out there.
-
- >I would rather talk about a "de facto" standard. The actual standard
- >(from ANSI) is about to be the STL, not the MFC or the OWL. BTW, the STL
- >has been developed with Borland C++.
-
- So? It could just has easily been developed with GNU C++, Symantec,
- Watcom, Visual C++. STL is not the standard nor will it ever be when
- refering to Windows interface programming, that's what OWL and MFC
- are.
-
- >I have been using Borland C and then C++ for 9 years, and I'm pretty
- >happy with that. I have seen many job opportunities concerning MS/Visual
- >C++, so I decided to learn Visual C++ to be "competitive" on the job
- >market; but about the class library, I'm more likely to stick with the
- >STL.
-
- >Regards,
- > Francesco G. Fantauzzi
-
- Which STL are you talking about? If it is the STL Library originally
- from HP then it has nothing to do with Windows programming. OWL and
- MFC only address Windows programming while STL is usable on any
- system, even though it does not address the system, per say, itself.
- Stay STL only then, you wont be doing Windows programming.
-
-