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From: ckinsman@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Chris Kinsman)
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Subject: Re: Programming Windows
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Date: 31 May 91 23:52:23 GMT
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In article <11803@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> db@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry) writes:
>What tools do people recommend for programming Windows?  I know of the
>following:
>
>Microsoft SDK.
>
>Borland C++ (and other languages).
>
>Digitalk Smalltalk/V.
>
>Which of these are best?  Are there any others I should look at?  Please
>bear in mind that I'm on a very limited budget.
>
>Are there any free C++ classes for programming Windows, like the InterViews
>library for X?
>
>I suspect that the Smalltalk approach is probably the easiest, because
>the system should take care of memory management and lots of low-level
>details.
>

I would suspect Microsofts new Visual Basic would be the easiest.  It will
be listing for $199 and not require the SDK which would make it a fairly
reasonable way to start into windows development.

Chris


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