Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th Oct 2012 21:15 UTC, submitted by Arto Salmi

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2005-07-08
Symbian was pain to use:
- Use of C++ contructors not allowed
- Three different types of strings
- Use of ARM TRAPs bundled with magic macros, instead of more sane error handling
- A braindead toolchain based in batch files, Perl scripts and auto-generated Makefiles
- Coding conventions that made Hungarian notation feel nice
Overall it was more pleasant to develop software for MS-DOS than for Symbian!
Of course, everyone jumped ship to more normal platforms.