On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:40:28AM +0100, Keith Howell wrote:

> Re-inventing user interface software is a utter waste of time.

Agreed.

> Learn Visual C++ and MFC. It'll take a lot of hard work,

Better still, learn Java and the AWT. It will take less work, and
will be useful on many systems other than Windoze. And will be
much more marketable within the next 5 years.

> Human time is finite and precious. Don't waste it writing code
> that will be obsolete by the time you finish it.

But everyone does that! What you should avoid is writing code that
is obsolete before you start.

Cheers, Clyde

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