Because it's a pain to install. If you have MSVC like myself, why bother 
mess up
with it. Besides, some of us are depraved enough to enjoy using MFC.

Victor

At 16:33 08/11/2005, you wrote:
>My main question is, why use Visual C++ 6.0 when MinGW is now a better 
>compiler, is free, and works with csound5 and scons out of the box?

Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth