> the recommended minimum for that maximum is 65536.

Irony...

> Seriously, I'm pretty sure MS uses Visual Studio themselves in-house. In
> a serious number of seriously large projects. Knowing that every second
> a programmer is busy ranting about the development tools is one second
> that costs money.

Well, yeah, there is that. If it's actually true...

> And then you'd also expect MS to give away VS for free (the real thing,
> with the tools to write the real powerful software, not just crappy
> hello world stuff), yet for some reason they don't.

Um... So how is the pro version actually different from VS Express?

> I think there's another reason why VS is so good. I'm convinced they're
> not trying to make it easy for /anyone/ to write code - they're trying
> to make it easy for /themselves/. And make extra money by selling the
> toolset.

Quite possibly. ;-)

Then again, Valve released their editing tools, and (from what I hear) 
they are really, really hard to use...

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