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From: nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows programming in C
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Date: 28 Jun 90 22:44:00 GMT
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:Actually, I don't think they make this much off every copy of the SDK sold
:since most all of their sales are through dealers that charge somewhere along
:the lines of $300, which probably means that Microsoft is making somewhat
:less.

  [ etc ]

  I think that our concern with the cost of the SDK is misplaced.
  
  I think a bigger impediment to developing Windows apps is
  the extreme complexity of the software required for writing
  Windows and the lack of more tools to make it easier and
  quicker.   The only alternative to the SDK I know of is
  Actor, which is also pricey, and which requires you to
  learn Yet Another Language.    I spend all day at work
  writing in Pascal and then I go home and write programs
  in C and I'm constantly typing "{" or "=" or "==", etc,
  when I mean to do something else.   (Thank God we're switching
  over to more C at my job!)   

  Ever since Xlib came out there have been all kinds of layers
  of tools and widgets built on top of it to make writing X apps
  easier, although I can't personally vouch for how effective
  they are.   Why can't someone do this in Windows?  Why can't
  I buy a C library and set of <include> files to make writing 
  Windows apps simple so it doesn't take 100 lines, or whatever
  to do "hello world"?   The first guy who comes up with a good
  product along these lines will have a real money-maker.

                                                    ---Peter