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I liked it too and still use to. It has become obvious that MFC is on life-support now so we are moving on.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Yeah, it's amazing that VSTudio still even supports MFC. It's too bad it didn't take off like C#. I liked it better because it was more esoteric. Seemed more like hidden knowledge you had to go into the cave and explore for. Then along came C# and brought everything out into the light and everyone was dragging and dropping and developing. 
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I think C# is an abomination of a language and can't stand it. Only managed C++ is worse - that is horrific. I remember vividly the marketing when it (C#) and .Net was introduced. It was touted as essentially existing because c++ is "too difficult" and that is total nonsense. It seems to me this attitude has extended itself to the "everyone can program" movement. My view on that is maybe so, but it is painfully obvious that not everyone should.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Me too, I wrote a ton of MFC applications.
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darktrick544 wrote: Me too, I wrote a ton of MFC applications.
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Your articles promote an alternative.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Rather more limited (console UI only), and more like the STL (trying to be platform independent). But from a big picture standpoint, yes.
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raddevus wrote: but all you needed (1998)
OK - I'll bite - what is on page 1998 that is all that is needed? 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Coming from a non Computer Science background, the sheer size of this put me off at that time. I started taking management roles 
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Management?! What are you doing on this site? Did you actually come back from the dark side?
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I was a manager for three years, 1998 to 2000, and then became an individual contributor once again. In fact my first CP article came out in 2008, ten years after that management role.
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Welcome back from the dark side!
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Amarnath S wrote: Coming from a non Computer Science background, the sheer size of this put me off at that time.
I felt the same way. I was learning C++ from a Dummies book and then trying to get through this stuff. I remember when in 1994 someone gave me Petzold's Windows Programming book and I was so shocked that there was someone (one lone author, it seemed) who actually explained windows programming.
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I had that one some years ago... In my MFC days mostly... I kept only part 5...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I kept only part 5.
Yeah, I was wishing I could buy Part 5 (and maybe Part 4) separately for less $.
There are still MFC programmers out there though and in VStudio 2017 (and maybe 2019) you can still do MFC development so I wonder how those devs learn that nowadays without these resources.
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Would you like to discuss a price ($$$$$$$)? 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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when did tools add means to inspect which overloads exist for methods?
I can see each class and method parameter taking up a good section of the books.
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maze3 wrote: I can see each class and method parameter taking up a good section of the books.
Yeah, Intellisense has been around for a while and mostly works.
Sometimes you need more though.
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Yep, many of those look familiar.
The MS-DOS Programmer's Reference makes me think one thing: Int 21h
And I don't even know what it means. I remember looking at those books and being like, hmm...I wonder what a Int 21h is. 
The Winn Rosch Hardware Bible is interesting. I guess Winn Rosch was actually a robot since he had his own hardware bible. 
I owned a copy of that Inside Visual C++ (by Kruglinski if memory serves right) and I never got much out of it. Lots of books I'd get 2 or 3 chapters in and then get stuck.
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Ah yes.. Good old Int 0x21 - The DOS interrupt, or in clearer english - the entry point to much of the functionality offered by the OS itself. Set AH to the value of the desired function, then fill other registers as required and finally interrupt.
I seem to remember it as sport - trying to identify other Ints that would perform the same basic functionality, albeit with greater convenience. Ralf Brown's interrupt list was like a divine gift from the gods. Advanced Assembly Language by Allen Wyatt is still one of my favourite chunks of dead trees devoted to computing.
Remember writing my first memory editor and then first hex (file) editor. It was always fun to watch 0x46C and 0x46D in memory, since that was where the timer-tick count was stored - you could watch it update 18 times a second or so. Altering it was even more fun! (y2k bug - you were boring)
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WOO HOO... what you have there sir is a very rare early prototype version of Stack Overflow
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Some new seeds arrived for the summer garden. Mostly I've used 'old' seeds as I'm pretty good at sprouting seeds (even nearly invisible succulents).
The noteworthy entries for the 'new varieties' category are:
- Japanese Wasabi Radish (not real wasabi but very likely what you've been eating)
- Trinidad Yellow Scorpion Peppers - a "mild" variety of 800K-1000K Scoville
Diamond Eggplant and Baby Bok-choi round out the order and they threw in a free package of Kohlrabi seed "Vienna Purple".
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Trinidad Yellow Scorpion Peppers - a "mild" variety of 800K-1000K Scoville
Assuming we're using the same units, 1000K is 1M...
That's mild on your Scoville scale?
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Gotcha. For this type of pepper, that's mild.
I don't mind spicy, but I have a healthy dose of respect for those at the higher end. I've quit long before that. I (and my colon) have nothing to prove.
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dandy72 wrote: I've quit long before that. I (and my colon) have nothing to prove.
And that's why it all gets turned into sauce. You learn it's properties of heat (starting will less, not excess) and work your way into cooking it in with just the right heat.
The super-hots (habanaero and beyond) of the Capsicum Chinense family have a better hot taste (at least to Mrs. Wife and myself) - all else being equal. The heat comes in a bit later and they are fruity. I just use (physcially) a lot less - also, less vinigar (my preservative) when you use so little and thus food isn't affected by the sour and smell.
But - paralleling the part of your post I quoted, any idiot can make food too hot - putting in the right amount to make it taste better is the key - and that does imply that the food has a taste.
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