Perhaps the third time trying to post a reply is the charm. Damn Win98 Crashes!
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Original post by TheGecko
Show me some C++ IDE for example that even comes CLOSE to Visual C++ in terms of ease of use and functionality.Linux programmers tend to use text editors and command line compilers most of the times. (I know,I''ve seen linux programmers in the labs at our University) And I love the windows architecture.And I for one thing cannot live without MFC in my day to day programming.I rely heavily upon it to create great win apps with great userinterfaces etc.
*Laughing like mad* Man, you''re not your IDE! It really doesn''t matter how easy to use it is, all that matters is you can get the job done. Sometimes ease of use only promotes laziness anyway. I know there are many fine IDEs out there for the XWindows system that integrate with those command line compilers, which BTW VC++ has a command line string for it too so that part of the argument is rather silly. Now to address MFC. I''m not even going to get to far into it, I''ll rant forever if I do! MFC wouldn''t be needed if the whole WinAPI wasn''t so friggin'' dicked up. You ever program for BeOS? That''s heaven! That''s everything the WinAPI should be but isn''t. Easy to use and powerful so you get back to your real job of programming without having to go run off and reference those odd API calls your co-worker(s) used. Personally I hate the WinAPI, if I were offered two jobs, one programming for a Mac, and the other a comparable job working under Windows, I''d take the one with the Mac!
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From a user/programmer point of view,proprietary stuff from Microsoft implies standardisation.
Standardization, heh, more like a complete lack thereof. It seems the boys up there in Redmond want to do their own little thing and give the finger to most everyone else.
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MS provides me with everything I''ll ever want!
Don''t ask for much then do you? Just messin''!
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Now whether you want to admit it or not,you NEED these large corporations. How else would you get your processor or monitor or whatnot?
Nobody said anything about not needing them. All that was said was that those big corporations don''t give a damn about you, and that is the truth. But IMO most corporate products are NOT overcharged. That''s right, I said not. Why? You have to think about the way things operate here, corporation makes a product, they sell it to retailers at a wholesale price or volume discount price that is much much cheaper than the market price. The retailers then jack up the price to whatever suits them, sometimes market value, oftentimes a bit higher. I didn''t like it when I had to shell out 200$ for Win98, but I don''t blame MS for that, I blame my local Office Depot. On the other hand, it is the up to the corporations to tell the retailers what the products market value is, so in some ways MS is to blame, but mostly not. Whether you believe it or not, your local retailer makes more money selling an MS product than MS makes selling an MS product. Sad isn''t it?
Well, there''s my two cents, take it, leave it, throw it in the fountain, I don''t really care. Just hope someone out there will at least agree with me on some of this!
~~What the hell have I done now?~~
If only debugging were as easy as killing cockroaches... *sigh*
