Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

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.