> Yes, we've all heard this before. Everything and anything from Microsoft
> is inferior. This is a view commonly held by many MS bashers who have
> never had to do any serious development, and deliver real product. Why
> is it then that virtually all Windows products are Microsoft Foundation
> Class based and built using Microsoft Visual C++?
>
> By the way, Borland with its much better and easier to use tools,
> effectively went out of business some time ago. Borland had a good thing
> going years ago when they introduced Turbo Pascal for the IBM PC. Again
> the raised the bar with Borland C and its visual IDE. After that they
> fell behind badly. They were never able to keep up with the rapidly
> expanding feature set of the Windows OS.
This could quickly become a religious flame war. Let's not let that
happen.
> Finally lets not spend a lot of effort on compiler independence. It is a
> goal that has never been achieved. Even Java, with its anywhere anytime
> mantra, is splintering. We are familiar with MSVC, we do all of our
> Windows work using MSVC, we would much rather see Palm devote its limited
> resources to improving the Palm targetted application development tools.
EXCUSE ME???? *WE* "do all of our Windows work using MSVC"??? Please
kindly refrain from speaking for the entire world. I would love to see
a CDK that I could use with the EGCS compiler.
This Microsoft-centric point of view is *exactly* why there are
Microsoft bashers out there.
Sorry, I'll step down from my soapbox now...
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Roger Chaplin
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