Re: [slug-chat] [slug-chat]Windows API

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Steven downing was once rumoured to have said:
> >(The other reason
> >of course was that MS hid a lot of the Windows API). 
> 

> Now I ain't no professional programmer, but I HATE the Win API.  And
> no book has been able to explain it to me such that I even felt like
> spending 10 minutes on writing a Win95 program.  All that bloody
> hungarian gibberish and HWND current handle crap.  Thank Tux for
> GTK/Gnome, an API that even non-IT like me can come to grips with,
> and get excited about within 15 minutes of reading.  And API names
> and functions that make sense.

Actually, the Win32 API is fairly sane - I used to work with it when I
was still in school, before I took a more complete turning to the
dark-side[1].  Its roughly on par with Xlib - and you need to know a
bit of Win32 API in order to interact with DirectX [which is why I
knew it at all - I was trying to aspire to be a games programmer
during college - now I'm a sysadmin]

If you want ugly hack APIs, look at the directX C interfaces - they're
EVIL.  They were designed to be used as C++ via COM, not as straight
C.  Fortunately some brightspark at M$ put in a tonne of macro
definitions to hide all the pointer magic necessary to use it from C.

[1] after a straw poll on #perl, we decided that Unix was the Dark Side, not
    the Light Side as previously concluded - afterall, the Dark Side has
    supreme power - something which M$ products can't exactly claim.
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