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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: Add-ons
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Date: 6 Nov 90 13:55:08 GMT
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In article <90309.111451NIBMSCM@NDSUVM1.BITNET> NIBMSCM@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:
>I know this group is not for product review, but what about programming
>products??  I'm trying to get everything situated for windows development
>and would like some opinions on the quality of Microsoft's Programmers Library
>CD (with the Denon drive) and the Microsoft C Run-time Library Source Routines.
>If anyone out there is using either in a development effort, I would appreciate
>your comments on their usefulness.

The Programmers Library CD: last time I looked at this it was a bit
out of date. I don't think it has been updated since it was released.
It has things like the complete text of Petzold's Programming Windows
-- version 2.0. The truth is, I don't think it is very useful, and the
places where it is out of date are a pain (you'd think it wouldn't be
that hard for Microsoft to keep it up to date).

The run-time library source may be useful to a windows developer,
because the windows C library is not very complete. However for those
one or two routines you need, you might just want to write them
yourself.

In summary these products are marginally useful but probably not worth
the money.

Joel Spolsky
spolsky@cs.yale.edu                                     Silence = Death