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I am just wondering why programmers who program in C++ for windows always use Visual Studio 6 instead of Visual Studio 2008?
Isn't the compiler in 2008 much better than the one in VS6?
The reason I ask as I have used many sdk's that are always written in VS6?
Many thanks,
Steve
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Partly it may be because earlier compilers are often (though not always) faster than later, and more feature-rich/standards-compliant, ones. I don't know whether this applies with VC6 vs later, but it may well do.
In the case of VC6 I think the two major factors are that the IDE is much faster to use than any of the painfully slow and greedy Visual Studio 200x IDEs, and that there's a huge amount of legacy code that will not compile with later, and more standards-compliant, VC++ compilers.
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