Comment Re:Win32api vs Unix and Java (Score 1) 212
Maybe GTK is a bad example, but how about
QT? Swing? Delphi's GUI framework? Even
MS's own WFC seems to be better designed.
Seems to me that developers are complaining big time on Usenet about how hard it is to write MFC apps or DCOM components without a bunch of help utilities. Or how about DirectX? MS seems to
have a tradition of using the most cryptographic type names possible.
Like lpDDCAPSDXWIN32VTXBUFPTR *p;
That's not to say that everything MS does sucks. They eventually get it right, like DirectX5,6,7. But in the case of Win32/MFC, there seems to be a lot of baggage left around from the old days.
QT? Swing? Delphi's GUI framework? Even
MS's own WFC seems to be better designed.
Seems to me that developers are complaining big time on Usenet about how hard it is to write MFC apps or DCOM components without a bunch of help utilities. Or how about DirectX? MS seems to
have a tradition of using the most cryptographic type names possible.
Like lpDDCAPSDXWIN32VTXBUFPTR *p;
That's not to say that everything MS does sucks. They eventually get it right, like DirectX5,6,7. But in the case of Win32/MFC, there seems to be a lot of baggage left around from the old days.
