From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,75ceae0e15e2ed62 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-09 06:51:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!attla2!ip.att.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "SteveD" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9a25nugj860iofuv46h2l2bbvlgf4ophc0@4ax.com> <4519e058.0209062259.1ab868de@posting.google.com> <3D7A054F.25E84ECF@acm.org> <3D7C8A62.C4FC17A0@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: The Ada experience. X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.225.227.101 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1031579511 12.225.227.101 (Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:51:51 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:51:51 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:51:51 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28790 Date: 2002-09-09T13:51:51+00:00 List-Id: "Marc A. Criley" wrote in message news:3D7C8A62.C4FC17A0@earthlink.net... [snip] > > Ditto. > > I've been working in the VC++ environment for a year and a half now, and > I continue to bang my head up against it. (Though no small part of that > is due to the idiosyncrasies of Windows(tm) as well.) > > I'm not stupid, and I've worked on a variety of platforms and IDEs over > the last nearly 20 years (Univac, VAX, Concurrent mainframe, various > Unices) and never had the ongoing struggle I experience with Windows and > VC++. It's not the C++ that hits me, it's the (for lack of a better > phrase) Windows paradigm. > That's your problem. In my experience people who love the Windows development environment have zero experience with any other system. Unfortunately this has been a growing percentage of programmers. SteveD > > Marc A. Criley