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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com(Pete Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: OWL or not
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 14:15:01 GMT
- Organization: Kalevi, Inc.
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- On Mar 22, 1996 16:45:29 in article <OWL or not>,
- 'Rikard_K.S._Hedstrom@online.idg.se (Rikard K.S. Hedstrom)' wrote:
-
-
- >Hello!
- >
- >I have bought Borland C++ 4.0 and try to learn to use it for Windows
- >programming. Borland tries to make me use Object Windows and provides
- >therefore two big manuals on that subject. But is Object Windows a
- standard
- >in modern programming or do most programmers use the traditional API?
- >
- >Thanks for an answer.
- >
- I don't have an answer to your specific question, but would like to
- inject some opinions relevant to the topic. Although you can get by
- dealing only with class libraries; e.g., OWL and MFC, I feel that
- I would be severely handicapped if I did not know the underlying API.
- I, therefore, recommend that new programmers take a little time to
- write a straight Windows/Win32 API practice programs to get a feel
- of what's going on underneath.
-
- In some ways, my position is similar to that of one who says you
- should be able to write ASM code in order to be able to program
- well in higher level languages. To come to think of it, that's
- true also. I would be hard pressed to accept a developer's
- claim to be an expert unless he/she was at least familiar with
- machine-level code. But now I'm drifting off the topic...
-
- --
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Software Engineering & development
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