MB>  if your goal is to learn anything 
MB> useful in connection with programming OS/2 apps, MFC is a 
MB> total waste of time.  The Windows and OS/2 PM native APIs 
MB> have significant similarities because of their common 
MB> ancestry, but MFC does not play much of a role in that.  
MB> The fact that Borland was able to get OWL working on both 
MB> Windows and OS/2 is proof of what could have been done with 
MB> MFC, but was not done because Microsoft had no business 
MB> interest in doing it.

Agreed. My only point was that there are many more Windows jobs
out there (the quality of which I alluded to), and that MFC skills DO
have some value in excess of what a current employer pays. The
latest Dr Dobb's, on p.96, makes a related argument, and lest the
author's independence be doubted, the argument is embedded in
a couple of discussions that give no comfort whatsoever to MS.

As this is an OS/2 echo, and as I think OS/2 + Open Class is just
dandy, I'll save any further comment for Os2_ne or Os_debate or
something .

MB>  BC> RI: careful! That bug's been known to EAT cars on I-95! 
MB> 
MB> I think there are only about three of us here who understand that
MB> line... 

It got inserted automatically, & the operator of the KWQ mail reader
wasn't paying attention, as usual. I've tried to make sure the tags on
this batch are devoid of obscure geographic or geologic references.

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