Re: For The Gamers

On 2024-12-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 05:30:20 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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My brother programs Windows applications. He despises .NET and DirectX.
He liked Visual C++ when it was the "go to" development tool.

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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.
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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.

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