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Peter Korsten wrote:
> 
> 
> There are some pro's and con's to the Visual approach. 
> 
The Visual approach has nothing to do with M$ VC++; understand this MS
VC++ is NOT a visual language; several real visual languages (most
referenced in Yahoo) will feel offended if you use the term "Visual
approach to describe VC++. Call it M$ approach instead


> 
> The real mess begins, when you want to program a Windows application
> or use the Microsoft Foundation Classes. But I doubt that programming
> an X-application is much simpler.
> 
X is much simpler as stated with a Visual C++ book from M$ press I used
for my project.

> If I forget the various disadvantages of Windows (NT) (try to
> protect a single directory in IIS with a password, hah), the most
> appealing aspect I find the uniformity and the integration. This
> is something I miss in Unix. X is an improvement over the text
> interface that preceded it, but it misses the integration, like a
> uniform interface and drag-and-drop.
>
I hate uniformity, the creative mind usually won't stand the same GUI
over and over again (still don't understand what's so cool in fvwm95). I
love to log into the AIX box (it has a cool monitor) and log into the
FreeBSD box to run bazillion X apps that don't run on AIX. This
pleasures aren't posible with NT.

I only use M$ stuff because I'm forced to...some teachers have clear
"standards" of what technology is :-(.

	Pedro.