Originally Posted by
Elysia
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This strikes me as a "If I can't beat them, join them" deal. If you don't like MS software, I'd love to see how you'd evangelize VS if you did. Maybe some sort of song would be in order, here I'll help with a draft of a first verse:
Code:
Visual Studio, the suite not short of a chair
You're a tool collection designed to let me keep my hair
Compiler, IDE and so much more
Includes a WYSIWYG editor, that much is sure
CL, my friend, you're a gluttonous fool
You ingest my code, and leave an exe as a stool
A ravenous tool I feed with structs and classes
With a Gy switch to counter stack smashes
Buffer overflows for crashes I cannot blame
Because of the canary you put inside the stack frame
No matter my refrain, or what gas I expel
It'll always hang around to catch a code smell
I don't have to impel, you always have the best of intentions
But why did fopen need an underscore s extension?
The secure CRT convention, a great and laudable idea
Produces only slightly more instructions than a store of IKEA
Have no fear, the dll runtime is a pleasure to use
Just once I had to battle through the redist blues
Some manifest abuse, a policy, an app.config file
Only 1 did I need to make the Windows gods smile
Versatile optimization is as strong as an Ox
The intrinsic speed increase won't leave me in the blocks
Dr Phlox may have a cure, but I know I'm not sick
Even if it is undetermined if I'm a dude or a chick