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To: Kashish King who wrote (9643)3/30/1998 1:21:00 AM
From: James Yegerlehner  Respond to of 10836
 
I'm not convinced these innovations were left out, as you say, in order to keep things dumbed down to VB's level. Perhaps they just didn't occur to anyone running the show there.

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Boland's OWL was even more tragic than MFC and Zinc was the only framework which even attempted to provide the functionality I'm talking about.
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I think the VCL deserves at least honorable mention in this category. The VCL provided a substantial portion of Beans first draft spec BTW.

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Visual C++ and MFC are as interactive as a dead cat.
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Agreed. I do enjoy your colorful metaphors.



To: Kashish King who wrote (9643)3/31/1998 4:45:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes  Respond to of 10836
 
>>>Boland's OWL was even more tragic than MFC and Zinc was the only framework which even attempted to provide the functionality I'm talking about.<<<

I hear what you're talking about there, but I was pretty happy with commonview, and very happy with zApp c++ class libs and the associated generators. Point of fact, way better than the first several Java interface packages, which totally sucked.

Chaz


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