Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!pshuang From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Programming Windows 3.0 Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 23:58:57 GMT References: <56492@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Distribution: na Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: hamilton@udel.edu's message of 17 Jun 91 14:24:54 GMT In article <56492@nigel.ee.udel.edu> hamilton@udel.edu writes: > Is it possible? Also, how much does the Microsoft Windows Software > Development package cost? Is there any way to get the Windows library > files without buying this package? Do you even need this package at > all? Is it possible to program in a language other than C (pascal, > modula, etc.). The Windows SDK used to cost an obscene amount of money, and now only costs a mildly disgusting amount of money. *BUT*, you do not really need it any more to start programming in Windows. Your options for programming in Windows are manifold today, something which wasn't true just a short while ago. You can: (a) buy the Microsoft SDK and C compiler 6.0 and struggle along -- the only option which requires getting the SDK; (b) use one of the several languages which really only have an audience in Windows (i.e. Actor, Smallwalk); (c) use one of the very-high-level languages such as Asymetrix Toolbook or Borland ObjectVision; (d) use a standard language which has been adapted for Windows, but which do not need the SDK, which include but are not restricted to Microsoft Visual BASIC, Borland C++ and Turbo Pascal for Windows, and Stony Brook Modula-2. -- Singing off, UNIX:/etc/ping instantiated (Ping Huang)