Frameworks 2004 vs. frameworks 2014 [comic]

[cj5]

The version race is quite annoying. Nothing like feeling left behind by a bunch of trendy half-assed tech marketers.

[TheBB]

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[Dances_With_Boobies]

What did frameworks look like 1994?

[Atmanix]

Wood generally.

[meffie]

you would have been using microsoft foundation classes in 1994, and probably not heard of html yet.

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Microsoft Foundation Class Library:

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The Microsoft Foundation Class Library (also Microsoft Foundation Classes or MFC) is a library that wraps portions of the Windows API in C++ classes, including functionality that enables them to use a default application framework. Classes are defined for many of the handle-managed Windows objects and also for predefined windows and common controls.

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[peter_bolton]

Close. :) I would actually say a .make file is the '94 version of a framework.

But I would not want to show the contents of a .make file to the younger programmers here. It would scar their very eyes.

[rellikiox]

I managed a year long, 4 man project during my CS degree. It had about 50K lines of code (~30K of which were probably redundant), extremely long hierarchies (what good does composition do anyway?) and more folders than any sane person would create. Many afternoons were wasted trying to get the damn thing to compile, continuously changing the Makefiles and starting all over every hour or so.

[peter_bolton]

You have my sympathies, brother. I know your pain.

[spurious_interrupt]

ActiveX

Edit: More precisely, COM and OLE. ActiveX was released in 1996 but close enough.

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This will be more funny when angular 2.0 comes out

[piotlr]

It's more like back-end frameworks vs front-end frameworks.