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I just installed Micro$oft Visual C++ 2008 Experss Edition.
My God... what have I done?? O_O
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I just installed Micro$oft Visual C++ 2008 Experss Edition.
> 
> My God... what have I done?? O_O
> 
If you feel like Dr. Frankenstein you should scream: "It's Alive!" :D
 
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I just installed Micro$oft Visual C++ 2008 Experss Edition.
> 
> My God... what have I done?? O_O
> 
Definitely no worse than me. I installed XP on a spare box yesterday 
just to play Spore.
<wanders off, gibbering and drooling>
John
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"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei
 
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Doctor John wrote:
> Definitely no worse than me. I installed XP on a spare box yesterday 
> just to play Spore.
> <wanders off, gibbering and drooling>
Pffhhaaahahahahhahahaha! PWN3D!!
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> I just installed Micro$oft Visual C++ 2008 Experss Edition.
  Even though I use Visual C++ for my payjob, I have never actually
made even a single CLI program with it. Let us know your experiences
in doing that.
  Visual C++ might look cool and fancy, with all of its graphical user
interfaces, configuration dialogs, source file editor, context help and
whatnot, but I bet it will feel very daunting at first. There are so
many options and buttons that you might feel a bit lost. You might even
start missing the simple "g++ program.cc" way of compiling a program. ;)
  Oh, and that just for creating CLI programs. You can probably forget
about creating win32 programs. The learning curve is steep. No, it's not
steep. It's a vertical wall.
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On 21-Sep-08 11:33, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I just installed Micro$oft Visual C++ 2008 Experss Edition.
> 
> My God... what have I done?? O_O
> 
At first glance, I would say: a spelling mistake.
 
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>> My God... what have I done?? O_O
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> At first glance, I would say: a spelling mistake.
NAAAAAAARGH!!! >_<
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Warp wrote:
>   Even though I use Visual C++ for my payjob, I have never actually
> made even a single CLI program with it. Let us know your experiences
> in doing that.
> 
>   Visual C++ might look cool and fancy, with all of its graphical user
> interfaces, configuration dialogs, source file editor, context help and
> whatnot, but I bet it will feel very daunting at first. There are so
> many options and buttons that you might feel a bit lost. You might even
> start missing the simple "g++ program.cc" way of compiling a program. ;)
I'm not saying it's bloated, but... EVEN THE *NAME* IS 45 CHARACTERS LONG!
Heh. Seriously. It was a 100 MB download, it took about 25 minutes to 
install (most of that was just the .NET runtime...), and I now have 
something open on my screen that looks very slick and... I... just want 
to compile some code? o_O
>   Oh, and that just for creating CLI programs. You can probably forget
> about creating win32 programs. The learning curve is steep. No, it's not
> steep. It's a vertical wall.
Warp, that's probably the most amusing thing I've ever heard you say. I 
am actually laughout out loud now! :-D
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Warp wrote:
>   Visual C++ might look cool and fancy, with all of its graphical user
> interfaces, configuration dialogs, source file editor, context help and
> whatnot, but I bet it will feel very daunting at first. There are so
> many options and buttons that you might feel a bit lost. You might even
> start missing the simple "g++ program.cc" way of compiling a program. ;)
...still not found a way to compile things yet...
At this rate, I'm going to have to look in the help file. (!!) o_O
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> ...still not found a way to compile things yet...
> 
> At this rate, I'm going to have to look in the help file. (!!) o_O
Ha. Haha. Ahahaha!
Of course, a mere "help file" would be far too easy. No, we must have an 
interactive tutorial... *sigh*
(I was afraid of this!)
Ohhhohhhh... so *that's* how you make it compile?
Hmm, you really have to do stuff in *exactly* the order it wants, don't 
you? Man this thing's inflexible! Oh well, at least I figured out how to 
work it. Heh. Even if it *is* about as intuitive as... something... not 
very intuitive... (First person to say "Haskell" gets a slap!)
Clearly this thing is designed for programs *way* bigger than "Hello 
World". I can't help thinking that if Hello World is all you're trying 
to write, this is massive overkill. Oh well, it's faster than running 
GCC on a virtual machine! (And it has a real editor, not Nano. And I 
even found out how to make it stop ****ing with my text layout!)
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