Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: For The Gamers Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 08:33:46 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 09:33:46 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c7b07addcea217f1a579a10327ef6ee7"; logging-data="582484"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+08hmNtcngIKiyPX/RieBu" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o7+5IOXVj5eF+OJiPvHOhHZt67U= On 2024-12-22, rbowman wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 05:30:20 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote: > >> My brother programs Windows applications. He despises .NET and DirectX. >> He liked Visual C++ when it was the "go to" development tool. > > Peter Norton single handily wrote a library full of programming books so I > don't remember the exact titles but he was not a VC++/MFC fan to the point > where he used C in the book. MFC itself was a wrapper on the API so the > difference was mostly you had to handle the 'this' parameter when calling > the functions. > > In the preface to an edition that was published when C# was becoming more > popular he said Microsoft had finally done it right. I am not a fan of VC+ > +. I'm not current with the language but C++ itself was no picnic and > Microsoft's extensions didn't help. afx my ass. I know nothing about programming. I'm pretty sure, though, that it was Visual C++ that my brother liked the most. I know for certain that he doesn't like the newest Microsoft stuff. He says it's crap. -- “Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien