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- From: tjclancy@ix.netcom.com (Tom Clancy)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: MFC or OWL?
- Date: Sun, 07 Apr 96 07:20:07 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4k7qm8$mlu@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>
- References: <DKKv8H.K35@iquest.net> <4i8od1$clt@Steinlager.tip.net> <4ipmh6$79g@btree.brooktree.com> <1996Mar25.132903.546@friend.kastle.com>
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- In article <1996Mar25.132903.546@friend.kastle.com>, rich@kastle.com wrote:
- >sasha@brooktree.com (Alex Bakaev) wrote:
- >
- >>nihtila@nihtila.pp.se (Mika NihtilΣ) wrote:
- >
- >>[deleted]
- >
- >>>MFC is the industry standard...
- >
- >>Says who ? Computer press or/and uneducated managers ?
- >
- >Says virtually all Windows C++ compiler vendors. Apparently they are
- >beginning to agree with Microsoft's assertion that MFC is a de-facto
- >standard, because they are all licensing MFC for inclusion in their
- >compiler products. The only serious competitor to MFC was Borland's
- >OWL, but as of Borland C++ 5.0, MFC class libraries are also included.
- >
- >--
- >Richard Krehbiel, Kastle Systems, Arlington VA USA
- >rich@kastle.com (work) or richk@mnsinc.com (personal)
- >
-
- I don't think MFC is included with Borland C++. Since Borland is
- still including OWL, Microsoft won't license MFC to them. However,
- if you have MFC source code, then Borland's C++ 5.0 will happily
- compile and use it.
-
- -tjclancy
-