On Wednesday 09 May 2001 07:13 pm, you wrote:
> <rant>
>
> I'm *really* trying to keep my attitude about M$ under wraps. I work at a
> software company that sells a program that runs only on, you guessed it,
> Windows. I just got a copy of the source to this program today (under NDA,
> of course) and the damn interface is written in VB 3!! This is a thousand
> dollar app and that lazy ******* programmer didn't even have the decency to
> use MFC so that the interface can be changed as the program evolves. The
> Visual C++ ide he used's environment is modeled after a Unix environment -
> proof can be found by the simple use of make and quite a few matching
> command line switches which I bet at least 80% of those who code apps for
> Windows never even notice. This code is wrought with gotos and lacks even
> the least explanatory comments. I wanted to port this as it would fill a
> hole in Linux that's not likely to be filled by anyone else any time soon,
> but to do that, I'll have to rewrite 60% of it from scratch. I'm not even
> sure I can do it now. If the Windows developers write in a style anything
> like this, it's amazing they have not been sentenced to life in an
> oubliette, so they can stew over what wrongs they have commited against the
> software development community for all eternity.
>
> </rant>
>
> I think I'm ok now.
>
> Glen
wow! another reason for Mandrake Linux. im not really sure
of all that what was said but it doesnt sound good. of course
code is not written like this in Linux.
remember, penguins and konqi;s :)
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