Re: How about the future of VC++/MFC

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Until a few weeks ago, it was a closed, highly proprietary language which was based on the
paradigm "write once, debug everywhere". It was designed to lock people into a single
vendor who exercised absolute control over every aspect of its development, and allowed no
deviation from Sun's concept of Purity of Essence (the infamous Sun-Microsoft lawsuit.
Apparently if Microsoft came out with a version that had the slightest incompatibility,
this was Evil, but if Sun broke every existing Java application with their next release,
this was Desirable Product Enhancement and was therefore Good. I lived through this
several times before I gave up on it; by the time I was teaching a Java course, the
current version of Java would not compile any examples from the textbooks which were only
a few months old!)

Now it is Open Source, and it will be interesting to see what happens to it. It now has a
very slight chance of becoming a reasonable language. At least if Sun keeps out of its
development (they have consistently been Java's worst enemy)
joe
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:56:07 -0800, "Tom Serface" <tserface@xxxxxxx> wrote:

What's Java?

:o)

Tom

"BobF" <rNfOrSePeAzMe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:44:32 -0800, Tom Serface wrote:

I think the C# group ...

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I think MSFT is trying to save their azz from the OS tools. By creating a
new language, and migrating core functionality to require it (XAML), they
keep us locked in buying their proprietary tools.

Oh, and compete with Java ... :-)

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