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Author Re: Win_XP and MicroSoft C are a beautiful art form... a language.
Kevin Spencer

2006-05-28, 7:08 pm

> And ANYTHING you write for the XP environment, well, it's
> just a crapshoot whether it's gonna do what you expect it
> to do ...


I must be one of the luckiest crap players in the world. Everything I write
for the Windows platform works, and does exactly what I expect it to do.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Professional Numbskull

This is, by definition, not that.

"B1ackwater" <bw@baarrk.net> wrote in message
news:dqvf22pq57r6a7lgod6onlfq35eoti5ou1@
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> "T Wake" <Usenet.es7AT@gishpuppy.com> wrote:
>
>
> I think he's just proud of his programming ability and
> thinks - probably correctly - that 'C' variants are the
> most useful and generally powerful tools for making PCs
> do what you want them to do. As for MICROSOFT 'C' ...
> MS tends to do things half-assed, just well enough to
> make a buck. McSoftware. I've always thought the
> Inprise/Borland environment was better, others favor
> Codewarrior, but few I've encountered *prefer* MS ...
> they're usually just STUCK using it.
>
> And ANYTHING you write for the XP environment, well, it's
> just a crapshoot whether it's gonna do what you expect it
> to do ... what a mess ! Frankly 'Vista' should have been
> a version of unix or linux with the MS name stamped on the
> cover - and prefereably customized by an outside software
> house.
>
> Just my opinion, of course ...
>



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