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Freehackers.org: Impressions on MFC vs Qt Programming

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 7, 2002

“This article does not pretend to be objective. It is just a
report of my personal experience. I do not address every good and
bad point of Qt or MFC. The fact that I knew Qt programming before
starting MFC programming might alter my objectiveness.

“This article is written from a pragmatic point of view: My boss
gives me the specification of the applications he wants and I
develop them. I have developed some with Qt, and some other with
MFC.

“The Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) is a graphical toolkit for
the windows operating system. It is a more or less object oriented
wrapper of the win32 API, which causes the API to be sometimes C,
sometimes C++, and usually an awful mix.

“Qt is a graphical C++ toolkit started around 94 by Trolltech
(www.trolltech.com). It runs on Windows (any version), Mac OS X,
any Unix and on embedded devices such as the Sharp Zaurus. Qt is
clearly and cleanly object oriented…”

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Web Webster

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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