[Coco] Thoughts on modern computers (sort of off topic)

[Mark McDougall]

On 1/02/2012 5:18 AM, Wayne Campbell wrote:

> isn't the programming language ... it's the environment. I still have no
> clue what half of the things in the Microsoft C++ environment are, or
> what they do, and have never been able to figure out how to "finalize" a
> project into an application that I can say "OK these files go in the
> distribution archive and these are development files only".

I don't blame you. The Microsoft development tools are by far the most 
confusing, bloated, cryptic pieces of garbage I have ever had the 
displeasure to use. Unfortunately it's often (far more often than I'd 
like) that I am required to use them for work, and I loathe it. :(

I've spent half a day tracking down a simple linker problem that spat 
some irrelevant, cryptic rubbish on the screen. Only with the help of 
Google did I discover this well-known "issue" and the work-around. And 
I've spent years using this software...

When I upgraded to Visual Studio 2010, I built a project and couldn't 
for the life of me find the .EXE it produced! It had generated all this 
'managed application' garbage in the project output directory which I 
had completely no idea about. After about 30 mins of frustration I 
finally discovered that the default output directory for .EXE files had 
been changed - not even in the project directory hierarchy - arrggh!!!

For my own personal C/C++ projects, I use GCC... isn't that telling?

Regards,

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