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From: demillo@porter.geo.brown.edu (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: DOS to Windows
Keywords: soliciting advice and references
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Date: 25 Apr 91 17:26:21 GMT
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In article <1991Apr20.024602.29466@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ebergman@isis.UUCP (Eric Bergman-Terrell) writes:
>Also:  I am beginning to believe that the complexity of Windows application
>development is rather exaggerated.  The time I've spent learning Windows
>& the message passing paradigm is much less than I'd spend writing all the
>things already built into Windows (e.g. on-line help)...
>
>
>My $0.02
>

A good two cents....

Its not exagerated...it takes a large learning curve to be able
to effectively use about 400 function calls...however, I have been
programming professionally in X Windows for a few years now,
and I have finally reached that point in MS Windows 3.0 where I 
think I'm as competent in Windows as I am in X....and you know
what? I *almost* like Windows better than X! (Gasp!  Heathen!) 
My personal jury is still out on this, but it has a *lot* 
of nice features that are relatively easy to use. (DDE, for one.)
Plus, to the user, the applications look just as sexy as they
do in OpenWindows 2.0. (Although I *still* like the look of
the OpenWindows slider bars better....)

My $0.04


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