Subj : Re: Windows Procedural Programming
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 02:33 am

Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

> > I think Phlip is exagerating the complexity of a Windows SDK program
(pure
> > C).
>
> No, not really.  However, I think he's exaggerating the benefits from
using
> an OO language.  Those benefits are there 100% if you write a program that
> is not Windows-specific, but in that case you're not writing a Windows
> application; the Windows-specific stuff requires dealing with things that
> object oriented abstraction doesn't make simple, although it helps much.

? I think I said that a well-designed wrapper system, working with its host
language and not against it, will get you coding useful windows much faster
than hours of low-level mucking. OO is orthogonal.

> > For SDK programming you could start with Programming Windows by Charles
> > Petzold.
>
> Good advice.

Why not start in assembler?

The OP thinks that learning OO will be hard, and required for windows. OO
will make a wrapper library easy to learn for windows.

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  Phlip
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