posted on Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:30 AM
by
Sean Gerety
XAML Un-programming?
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In a recent post by Dino and Chris about feedback on XAML, lots of folks apparently didn’t like it. Hey everyone is wrapped differently. I’m an XML/front end kinda guy, myself. They don’t want to mess around with markup; they want to be real programmers they say. I say they’re just being code snobs. They’ll only be happy doing C++ because only real coders handle pointers. If that’s what rolls your socks up, more power to you. If you want to be able to create great looking vector based apps and you don’t really feel like sitting down and writing a parser that reads a markup language and then performs all of the work to render it to directX objects that are performant, and include lots of tasty built in crunchy goodness (think eventing, filters, etc.) then take a second look.
I’m sure this will bring the coding bigot out in all of us. Hmm, could this be the next VB vs. C++ war?
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