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JohnFen

Re: Microsoft Foundation Classes

MFC is a classic "lesser of two evils" thing. The Windows API is (to be charitable) baroque and really hard to use directly. MFC reduced that pain quite a lot. So, while I never liked MFC, I did prefer it over the alternative.

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