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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Getting Started
Message-ID: <1990May3.221217.25585@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 3 May 90 22:12:17 GMT
References: <292600002@trsvax>
Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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In article <292600002@trsvax> reyn@trsvax.UUCP writes:
>A less traditional approach is the Actor language/development environment.
>My understanding is that I could generate applications with this without
>the need for the Windows development kit or the C compiler.  I am a little
>unclear whether or not these are necessary to write DLL's or not, and
>welcome input from anyone who has experience in these areas.
>
Actually, Actor depends on your definition of "traditional".  Actor has been
around since Windows was first released.  I've talked to our developers about
things they did under Windows 0.5.

In any case, you can't write a DLL or any C code with Actor.  Actor is it's
own environment/language.  We do, however, allow all of the C Windows calls,
so there is no reason you should need to write a DLL (unless you're doing
something extremely complex).

Actor is the easiest and most complete way available to enter the Windows
world of programming.  I started Windows programming with Actor and am glad
that I did since it made the whole environment a lot easier to program in.

Drop me a line with your address, phone number, etc. and I can get you more
information if you like.
>There is such a proliferation of tools/languages/ etc. for Windows that its
>obvious I could spent big bucks without much trouble.  My basic needs to
>begin is for a set of tools which allow me to investigate all of the
>features of the environment along with a reasonable debugger to compensate
>for my limited mental accuity.
>
>Thanks in advance for any thoughts,
>					       John Reynolds


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