Chambers wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> So, they can do limited function, single task stuff well.. like DOS. lol
> 
> No, they can do something well if the requirements are strict enough.
> 
> MS makes their software good enough for the people who have to use it. 
> That's one of the reasons the perception of Visual Studio is so much 
> better than the perception of Windows in general... developers have 
> higher standards than the average user, so MS makes a better product for 
> them.
> 
Well, true enough. Though, a note one VS.. One feature it has that no 
other editor suite for Windows really supports (or as extensively), is 
"design time", as in edit objects, in place. There is a reason for this. 
The code needed to "react to" design mode flags in a window or other 
object is well documented. The means by which to "turn on" design mode 
for a window... I spent 2 years looking for code, everyplace from their 
sites, to the official API manuals you can buy, to just about every 
other place you can think of. Its not documented in any discoverable sense.

Having a product that does something that no one else's does, because 
you intentionally prevent anyone else from doing it the same way, isn't 
a selling point, as far as I am concerned. That said, VS, on my install, 
had more than a few annoyances, not the least being that all its 
frakking documentation assumed that you where going to code stuff in 
either C++/C# or in VB, and that if you where using VB, you didn't need 
either headers for the API flags, at all, never mind documentation on 
them. And, it was hardly bugless...

But, yeah. Things that perform one, clear, and specific task, they do 
well with, sort of, except for the things they leave out, due to you not 
needing them, from their view, or don't work as expected, or don't work 
at all. How many versions of the XBox 360 cooling thing they go through 
before figuring out to a) leave the fans on until it cooled off, and b) 
it got hot enough to melt the solder points on the GPU? 3-4 I think.. 
But, otherwise, great machine. lol Just hope a car with the their tech 
in it doesn't have a similar issue. ;)

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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