Greetings!
Hmmm...i guess it depends on what software you are
developing... i have this mindset that for experimental stuff, open
source is better since you can pretty much do anything you want
with it; if we're talking the more conventional(though not necessarily
easy) data entry, inventory, etc., much as it pains me to say it, MS
might be a better choice.
On 15 Aug 00, at 9:37, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
> 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 Windows
OLE 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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