[Qt-creator] 1.30beta - Cmake + Visual Studio 6

[Coda Highland]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Danny Price <deepblue842 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Off-topic but what I find even more troubling is that so many
> companies STILL use Visual Source Safe 6 (and pay for it no less!)
> simply because it's what they're used to.
>
> That atrocious product should be banned!

And as off-topic as that is, it IS embarrassing how widespread that is...

> On 28 Oct 2009, at 20:25, Coda Highland wrote:
>> VC++6 has a bunch of quite atrocious limitations; it was released
>> before the C++98 spec was finalized and thus gets a bunch of stuff
>> wrong.

And tangentially, I have been corrected out-of-thread on my dates;
VC++6 came out summer of 1998 so it was contemporary to the standard.
Allow me to refine my statement by saying that no vendor's C++
implementation was standards-compliant with C++98 for several years
and Microsoft's is not special in that regard; the only thing
remarkable about it is that people are still trying to use it. If you
were still trying to use g++ 2.8.1 today, you'd probably get laughed
out of the development community unless you have a REALLY good reason.

(That said, there are still a number of companies using the
contemporary Borland C++ compiler too...)

/s/ Adam