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[andr00]

When people say, "I learned a lot during this project," they mean, "I spent an incredible amount of time making mistakes."

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[catness]

So what are you learning? ;)

[andr00]

I am becoming familiar with VC++ 2008's opinions of my shortcomings, and what mysterious error messages it uses to tell me about them. Also, where to look to fix them.

Last night it was that converting projects from VC6 to VC 2008 has some confusing semantics about which msvcrt it's going to link.

Also, that I had to recompile all my libs with the new compiler or face eternal darkness. Or, at least until I hit ESC.

Overall, that the skeleton windows code I was using is from 1998 and doesn't compile under the modern rules of C++ (e.g. no implicit return type).

I'm still not sure what happened to my config dialog.. guess that's a lesson for tonight. Looking forward to tutorials posted in the last 5 years actually compiling on my machine.

[ocean_state]

Yes, but the mistakes give +5 to learning.

[andr00]

That's what I'm all about!

Mistakes!

I mean, mistakes and learning.

And headaches! Three things! Mistakes, learning and headaches are the three things I'm all about.