horndog40 opened this issue on Oct 20, 2006 · 67 posts
kuroyume0161 posted Fri, 27 October 2006 at 8:27 AM
Since they've announced MacOSX UB support for Poser 7, it may be that Windows 64-bit support is going to be there or in the works. Actually, I'm surprised that it isn't the other way round. For me, migrating Windows code to 64-bit was a breeze and a song. Migrating MacOS PPC code to UB was torture. They are enforcing their new filesystem structures over POSIX paths - even for simple, ubiquitous C methods like fopen() - this means that code that works on every other system since the dawn of computers - Babbage Inductive Engine, I think ;) - fails with XCode on MacOSX. That's a Microsoft maneuver in my books (hope that hurts a little). Plus, they are quickly eliminating support for the archaic Resource fork/data - which is great - except when you are writing plugins that access Resource data used by another cough application cough. ;)
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the
foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg
off.
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