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Re:We have C++14 by _pmf_ on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @04:42AM (#8196458)
> MFC was the vilest, most horrible abuse of C++ from the day it was released.

MFC's greatest benefit was that it made returning to plain win32 C programming without MFC a pleasurable experience.

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Re:We have C++14 by pjmlp on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @12:32PM (#8198245)
Funny thing is that MFC iw like that because of Win16/Win32 C developers.

Microsoft team made a prototype OO framework even more OO that what OWL and others offered. MFC was the result from the feedback over the said framework.

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