Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)

Very nice flowing article. I think this quote feels ever prescient, "What the Internet seems to do best is make commonly available enormously vast resources of mis-information that we never knew existed."

Re: Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)

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Post by EvanAnderson » Fri, Feb 07, 2020, 1:48 AM UTC

I enjoyed the article, but I really want to hear the 1991 talk that he gave at the Boston Computer Society meeting re: early Windows development, OS/2, and the Microsoft/IBM split. I'm sure it's lost to the mists of time, sadly. I had no luck finding it doing some quick searching.

Re: Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)

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Post by smitty1e » Fri, Feb 07, 2020, 2:03 AM UTC

jcmontx wrote: post #3

Short answer: Yes Long answer: No

Intermediate answer: maybe, if you use Visual Studio to maintain a framework.

I guess the classic "Why I Hate Framewoks" rant was Benji Smith and not Joel Spolsky?

https://medium.com/@johnfliu/why-i-hate-frameworks-6af8cbadb...

Re: Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)

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Post by muststopmyths » Fri, Feb 07, 2020, 2:15 AM UTC

Petzold's books on Windows GUI programming were pretty much the Bibles if you wanted to understand how stuff worked under the covers of Visual Studio's designers/codegen.

Great author from the perspective of someone how needs to know the innards, not just churn out code.