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"Borland C++ Builder" I remember that. It was awful. It drank the OO koolaid complete with multiple derivation. For GUI I switched to the MS windows C-toolk
by worik 5y ago
"Borland C++ Builder" I remember that. It was awful.
It drank the OO koolaid complete with multiple derivation.
For GUI I switched to the MS windows C-toolkit. Event driven and very easy to manage. The OO solutions from Borland and MS (MFC if memory serves) were very hard to use
- jacquesm 5y agoCompared to the alternatives it was great, it compiled super fast and was very reliable. The MS windows C/C++ compiler drowned you in boilerplate, Borland just got out of the way and got you to focus on the job. I never did any deep dives into the OO solutions, for me it was just a way to get an Irix application ported over to Windows with minimal hassle.
- worik 5y agoThe MS MFC was bad too. I did not use that as much. When I had the choice I switched to using the C-SDK and an event loop. Twenty years ago now, but I can still recall my frustration. So much work (by Borland and MS) to make things so much worse