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brockbr)
Actually, I'm a software engineer of the old school variety - I mention this because the way the algorithm is implemented is ready to port to straight C.
I could just as well port it to C# etc for WindowsCE 5 (Window Mobile). I've written MANY CE apps (matter of fact I have some listed with the patent/copyright office written in straight C
), but in a a painfully ironic (and satisfying) twist, I choose to support Linux and Apple platforms at this point
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Microsoft has decided that in lieu of actual technology and support of the developers, they want to see how many bullsh!t version of MSDN and the OS's they can create. The day they went from MSDN Universal to MSDN/Humpty Hump/***ity***/AppDev licenses, I decided it was time to move to open source.
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The reason for this is that MS forgot what built them. Period - End of story.
ps. If you're a VB.Net hack and want to defend MS, be prepared for a flame war from a 20+ year vet
pss. This is like therapy
Too right, mate!
I've been writing software since 1979; FORTRAN, PL/1, Assembler (various micro controllers and PICs), C, C++, Java (plus Perl, Python, Jython, PHP and a host of others...).
I left C++ years ago and have never once regretted the decision. C was an "almost perfect" language, IMO. C++ was it's orphaned bastard child. I hated programming in that language. I absolutely refuse to participate in the "C#, .Nyet, .asp, .whatever" B.S. that MS is now foisting upon programmers.
I'd still rather program in C.
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I'm not quite sure how to use the quote feature, so don't hold it against me.
I'm no MS clone although I know my way around several programming languages. I'm in the mobile industry. I've US patents in networking and conferencing technologies. (I've also noticed that many on this forum are very accomplished when it comes to technology and achievement. It's great isn't it?!) I was looking at it from the network aspect. Data intensive users don't tend to use iPhone (or Blackberry for that matter) because it isn't really supported by what many would consider a top tier mobile data network at this time. Many WinMobile devices are. Many need that data versatility in a device for both business and personal. My interest in WinMobile was strictly selfish. I'd like to use the application on my PDA when available, but couldn't switch to iPhone to do it.
Paul