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- From: checker@acf3.nyu.edu (Christopher Hecker)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: abstraction (was: Re: Give me a break)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.204004.17806@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:40:04 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.215414.15202@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <1992Jul20.232555.27851@microsoft.com> <1992Jul23.020241.11513@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <1992Jul23.180535.9525@microsoft.com>
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- >In article <1992Jul23.020241.11513@cmcl2.nyu.edu> checker@acf3.nyu.edu (Christopher Hecker) writes:
- >|Hmm, I'm not sure you want to make this argument. Carried to its
- >|extreme, we could say, why are so many people using OWL?
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- >How many people ARE using it? If many people are using it, why aren't the
- >other compiler vendors licensing it?
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- I have no clue how many people are using it. I do know that the BIX
- Borland forum is clogged with OWL questions, and MEWEL supports it (and
- mentions that in their advertisements) among other things. Add that to
- the fact that Borland's share of the DOS C++ market approaches monopoly
- and I'd say that there are more people writing OWL applications than
- there are using MSC7 as a C++ compiler, but I have no way of proving
- that.
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- Anyway, the real answer to, `How many people ARE using it?' is, `Too
- many.' Of course, that answer holds whether the `it' in the question is
- OWL or MFC.
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- Chris
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