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From: ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows Shareware
Keywords: shareware, conventions, community
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.001346.12588@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Date: 6 Sep 90 00:13:46 GMT
References: <10297@life.ai.mit.edu> <1990Aug24.154449.3650@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <1245@meaddata.mead.UUCP>
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nxh@mead.UUCP (Nobuya Higashiyama) writes:
>Another problem has to do with the sheer complexity of Windows programming.
>There are 450+ functions to keep track of, memory management that takes quite
>a bit of time to get used to (we're talking about accessing blocks of memory
>by using handles), concepts that are unfamiliar to many programmers (message
>passing architecture, a little flavor of OOP, handles, working with window
>manager, etc.), and lot of other nasties.

Have you ever looked into programming on the Mac ?  I admit that I have only
looked at it in passing, but there appeared to me to be thousands of functions
to keep track of.  The size of the manuals describing the graphics functions
alone is HUMUNGOUS.  It's no wonder Mac programmers are (supposedly) some of
the highest paid programmers around.

ant

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