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On 2/15/25 11:51 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:51:03 -0500, Joel wrote:
> 
>> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:35:16 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>>>
>>>>     The Borland products were GREAT STUFF from TP v1.0,
>>>>     a whole different experience, a whole new level of productivity.
>>>
>>> I preferred OWL to Mighty Fucking Complicated but so it goes.
>>
>>
>> I had Borland's Win95-era package, certainly was great in its time,
>> but ultimately it seems reasonable for M$ to provide development
>> software themselves, they're the ones creating the platform.
> 
> I've still got the box for Windows 3. Borland's C++ preceeded Microsoft's
> C/C++ 7.0. MFC was a very thin wrapper on the C API.
> 
> To Microsoft's defense C++ wasn't ready for prime time in the early '90s
> and Microsoft had to invent their own conventions.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_API
> 
> That does a good job of airing the dirty laundry. I don't know about
> Petzold's later in the series but his 'Programming Windows' books used C
> and direct API calls.  In the 6th edition he used C# and stated Microsoft
> had finally come up with a decent language.


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