The Horror
After years of shielding my eyes from all things having to do with low-level windows development, I’ve finally had to do it. It’s not by choice, I swear. I’d like to choose the technologies I use, but sometimes that’s not always possible.
Just look at this mess. Was the original guy typing up those function names having some kind of seizure? (I know, I know, this is not the latest-and-greatest development environment from Microsoft, but still! There’s no need for the uglyness, now or ever in the past. How long has it been since UNIX system calls have been standardized? Yet they are still sane to work with.) When you have the need to introduce underscores or “Ex” to function names, someone somewhere has screwed up.
I’m managing to avoid MFC for the time being, at least. The PopCap framework is pretty cool.