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Steve Todd

Re: Microsoft Foundation Classes

While MFC was great if you wanted to write Notepad, it really wasn’t a patch on object libraries like Borland’s VCL. About the only part of it that can be used in isolation is CString, and it’s a damned poor example of how to write an object framework.

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