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"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
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> Well, MSVC++ was still C++ and was as buggy and clumsy as many other
> Microsoft things, so I'd not try to hold it up as the ultimate IDE or
> otherwise declare it to be the Best Of All Possible Universes. What I
> would say is that it provides a good example of how parts of an IDE can
> be tightly integrated and how having all those capabilities working
> together can make development more efficient.

This is the secret to Visual Basic's success. Let's face, nobody raves about
Visual Basic the programming language. The Visual Basic IDE, however, makes
it a snap to develop a GUI application. It seems that a good IDE can make up
for a lot of language faults.