Re: Visual C++ 6 support issue

From: Roy Fine (rlfine_at_twt.obfuscate.net)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 08:22:57 -0400

"Daniel James" <wastebasket@nospam.aaisp.org> wrote in message
news:VA.000006a9.0278b880@nospam.aaisp.org...
> In article news:<hgQpc.42313$TT.2629@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Ian
> Semmel wrote:
> > A common IDE is a good idea, but usually in programming, you have
> > to write code that fits into the user's environment, not tell the
> > user "I've written this really good program. All you have to do is
> > change the way you do everything". I can imagine the reaction from
> > my customers if I tried this.
> >
> > I think it would have been easier for MS to develop VS6 into
> > something better than the path they chose. I think I remember
> > something about some guru they got from Borland who decided that
> > the VS7 approach was they way to go.
>
> The thing they got wrong was thinking that it would be "real cool" to
> have the *same* environment for Visual C, Visial Basic, and Visual
> Whatever, rather than separate environments for each language that
> would do what made sense for that language.

Unfortunately -- the answer is in the numbers -- with a 10:1 (or higher)
ratio of VB programmers to VC++ programmers, we should feel fortunate that
there is a VC++7 :)

rlf

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