Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 14:36:50 02/27/00
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On February 27, 2000 at 15:43:06, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On February 27, 2000 at 14:43:59, James Swafford wrote: > >>Please elaborate, Tom. As I recall, you don't like C++ either, >>right? Do you recommend using direct API calls, or staying away >>from Windows GUI programming all together? > >I don't have a big problem with OO itself. I just have a problem with >"programmers" who think that OO is the be-all and end-all of programming. MFC is _widely_ criticized for being a poor OO encapsulation of the Win32 API. Even Stroustrup disses it (not by name) in C++PL v3. It's a defacto standard, though, so people are pretty much stuck with it. >I think that calling the Win32 API functions directly is perfectly reasonable. >It's not like they're "low level" calls written in a bizarre foreign language. >They're functions that are intended for use by other people. They're pretty easy >to use and they're well documented. I don't understand why anybody would want a >wrapper for them. There are actually plenty of good reasons, none of which I intend to get into here. :-) Dave
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