On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. wrote:
> Even programmers who use microsoft tools never experience
> the difficulties and challenges micrsosoft developers go through like
> everyone else developing system and development software. Thats what
> users pay big bucks for. Thats why microsoft windows programmers do
> not got through as much difficulty developing programs because
> microsoft developers already did almost all of the programming for
> them.
If you have done Windows programming using Visual C++ and
the (more than 500 function) Win95 API, I think you will not speak
so kindly of the Microsoft developers. It is not true that programmers
using Microsoft tools (Studio, C++ compiler, resource compiler, etc)
never experience the difficulties the MS developers go through. In fact
programmers have to learn, oftentimes by painful trial and error, those
diffulties that the MS developers had to go through to understand how to
use the MS tools.
It is precisely this difficulty of doing Microsoft GUI programming
(with tools from MS or Borland) that C/C++ programming under Windows
is never selected as a starting language for our freshmen computer
science students.
If Windows programming were as easy as you pictured (since the MS
developers already did almost all of the programming for them) how come
there are so few Windows programmers and how come they get paid so much?
I once did a WindowsOLE server that searched for and decoded barcodes from
digital pictures. I can tell you that that program was not easy to write
and I earned my pay with sweat and blood. Writing the flash-ram access
functions for Linux for Ritchie (now with Microsoft) was so much easier
to do because of better documentation for Linux, and because I had access
to the Linux kernel source code.
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