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- From: telliott@ubmail (TODD ELLIOTT)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Visual C++ vs. Borland C++
- Date: 28 Mar 96 12:58:59 -0500
- Organization: University of Baltimore
- Message-ID: <1996Mar28.125859@ubmail>
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- In article <4jacau$ibg@comet.magicnet.net>, catello@magicnet.net (Michael Catello) writes:
- > I get the impression that you think that making development easier is
- > a bad thing. There will always be bad programmers who never experiment
- > with the language and try to extend their experiences and learning,
- > but who are just out to get the job done (much to the chagrin of those
- > of us that have to go in after as cleanup). These people can never be
- > saved or helped by even the most pure of environments. But for the
- > rest of us, making development easier for the redundant tasks that
- > were all too common in old Win SDK days is like manna from heaven.
- >
- Amen! I'm an experienced RISC machine language programmer (No, not the Mac.),
- and I know how much work it takes to even make a simple MDI module. I've tried
- the first lessons in using the AppWizard, and was amazed at the results.
- However, it can be a bad thing if these armchair programmers just use the tools
- provided by Visual C++ without any real programming work. IMHO, the actual
- coding only strengthens and complements the MFC framework, and is needed to
- make quality apps.
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