Subj : Re: Windows Procedural Programming
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 03:21 am

Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

> So I think the question really is, why recommend a book based on C?
>
> Because it's the best book there is on the GUI side of the Windows API.
The
> use of C in the book is in a sense good because the details are exposed,
> which is what you need for understanding.  It is however the opposite of
> what you want in real applications, where the details just complicate.
>
>
> > The OP thinks that learning OO will be hard, and required for windows.
OO
> > will make a wrapper library easy to learn for windows.
>
> Yep.

To avoid "learning" OO, the OP should also avoid the low-level "C style"
stuff that simulates OO without direct language support. That's even worse!

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  Phlip
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