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4 Sep 2024 19:20:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What's in an IDE?  
From: Invisible
Date: 2 Mar 2010 04:35:42
Message: <4b8cdbee$1@news.povray.org>
>> Actually it saves the GUI description as an XML file, which your 
>> program then loads and parses at runtime.
> 
> Yes. As does Visual Studio. And what do you think the boilerplate does 
> there beside "load and parse at runtime" that XML? :-)

Surely it's just 1 line of code? (Unless you want to do something 
special to determine where to find the XML file...)

>> Now, see, to me these kinds of tasks all belong to the set of things 
>> which are "impossible" in the first place, so I guess I don't tend to 
>> think about it. You can't write web browser plugins unless you're a C 
>> programmer, unfortunately.
> 
> Of course you can.

Oh, yeah, I forgot. You could be a C++ programmer. ;-)


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