Re: For the Windoze haters - VS2005

John Larkin wrote:

In the DOS days, anybody could hack out a GW Basic program with
minimal training, in a few minutes. Microsoft is increasingly putting
programming out of our reach. So I, for one, am interested in any
"accessable" programming techniques.

For the limited Windows programming that I do, I find Borland C++ Builder fine. It does the clever windows stuff for me, leaves me to program what I want, there are lots of noble- hearted individuals out there who have written useful little extras for it. Of course, though it's still available, development has stopped, but that's markets for you.

Paul Burke
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