Re: Are _T() and TEXT() macros equivalent?

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:09:47 -0500, David Wilkinson
<no-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


There is a non-Windows C++ world out there, and if those folks come to
see VC++ as a quality, standard-compliant platform, it can only help the
language.

Hi David,

are you speaking about the Linux/Unix world?

I'm curious to know what is the non-Windows C++ world. Could you
explain that to me, please?

(I was told that on the Apple MacOS systems, programmers tend to use
Java or Objective-C with Cocoa framework.)


And I do not see standards-compliance as being an impediment to writing
windows programs. Rather I see the problems for C++ in writing Windows
programs as

1. MFC is a dinosaur, and has also not kept up with the PSDK in recent
years.

2. WTL, which perhaps has the potential to be a better alternative, is
not really supported.

Do you see any reason for that?


3. Despite heroic efforts (now perhaps being scaled back) C++/CLI is not
a first-class .NET language. C# is the heir to the .NET kingdom, and C++
will not be able to stop that.

I agree.


Thanks,
MrAsm
.

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