Tyler Littlefield wrote: > you ever worked with any type of API? > Telling all new programmers that they *shouldn't use pointers* is abserd, > especially if the windows API takes 10000 pointers per function, as with > other APIs. > > Thanks, > Tyler Littlefield > http://tysdomain.com
New programmers shouldn't be using APIs or third-party libraries either until they are comfortable with the basics of programming. Third-party libraries, though, (generally-speaking) are relatively friendly for interfacing with and, done right, can also avoid exposing pointers to the user. Only low-level OS APIs are evil. In particular, Windows APIs. *NIX APIs can be evil too, but the evil tends to get wrapped up in third-party libraries that you use instead. In the Windows world, such libraries are called "frameworks". -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
