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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: Borland C++: what a dog.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.004200.28937@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 00:42:00 GMT
- References: <CFORTIER.93Jan21152045@genghis.news>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- cfortier@genghis.news (Chris Fortier) writes:
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- : Borland is supplying container class libraries, which is part of the framework.
- : As far as PM interface classes go, Borland can't solve all of the development
- : world's problems. This is a first generation product. If you remember,
- : Borland did not have a framework for Windows until Borland C++ 3.0, 9 months
- : after their first generation Windows product, Borland C++ 2.0. The cold hard
- : fact, is that you are going to have to wait and rely on third party libraries
- : to supply PM interface abstractions.
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- As I see it, the Borland OWL interface was a very useful set of abstractions
- not just for Mickeysoft's Windoze products, but for GUI applications in general.
- One day, someone will learn - if we rely on third paty vendors, any advantage
- the abstractions may have given developers in terms of cross platform
- development is gone.
-
- I almost started writing a port of OWL form OS/2 last night. Could somebody
- comment on the "proprietry" of providing a look-alike interface (pref. Borland)
- Is anyone interested in becoming part of such a project ? If so, send any
- reasons you feel you would be qualified to be on the team.
-
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
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