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Postby warmi » Apr 11, 2003 @ 5:45am

It is anything but a "clean platform".
PPC is ridden with all that legacy crap that made programming for Win32 so painfull.
You want a modern API ?
Try things like Qt (www.trolltech.com) etc ..
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Postby Birdiestyle » Apr 11, 2003 @ 7:18pm

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Postby warmi » Apr 11, 2003 @ 8:22pm

"Oh the magic of encapsulation..."

Yeah, also known as "code reuse"...
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Postby simonjacobs » Apr 11, 2003 @ 8:30pm

reading their website, they seem to be asking for a client licence for every ppc your product is run on. ouch, expensive.
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Postby warmi » Apr 11, 2003 @ 8:54pm

Well, Qt doesn't even run on PocketPC.
That wasn't my point.

I was writing about technical excellence of their API.
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Postby Birdiestyle » Apr 11, 2003 @ 9:36pm

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