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- From: gsobrian@msn.com (Glenn Sobrian)
- Subject: RE: C or MFC?
- Date: 28 Mar 96 22:14:28 -0800
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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Organization: The Microsoft Network (msn.com)
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- Joe,
-
- You appear to be confused. I will try to clarify.
-
- C
- - procedurally based general purpose language, very powerful
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- C++
- - superset of C language which has Object Oriented extensions
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- MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class Library)
- - this is not a language but a class library which is based on the
- C++ language
- - it provides both a library of reusable classes (for general &
- windows specific uses) and set of application frameworks which are
- skeletons of an application that you can add your own code to to make
- a Windows program
- - MFC is bundled with most modern C++ development products including
- Microsoft's Visual C++, Borland C++, Symantec C++, Watcom C++ etc...
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- Visual C++ (you incorrectly referred to it as Visual C)
- - this is also not a language but a product although it does have its
- own set of Microsoft Specific language features, pragmas, etc...
-
- I hope you now see that your question of "which one is better" is a
- little absurd as they are apples and oranges.
-