>> >> Having been a Windows developer since version 1.03, with DOS >> and CP/M before that, I can say with complete authority that >> most Windows developers are not "good." The worst I've seen >> is Charles Petzold, and he sets the bar. > > Charles Petzold is a decent programmer. I have read his books and he > knows what he's talking about. He no W. Richard Stevens or Donald > Knuth, but I would hire him to do a job. >
Funny story. In Windows 2.x days, a bug was found in Petzolds calculator example having to do with the stupid way Win16 dealt with various aspects of Window properties such as hMenu. When I read the book, I had been programming in Windows 1.x and early 2.x, and thought to myself, "that's not right." Well, it turns out that it was a bug that broke a lot of Windows program when Win 3.0 came out in standard mode. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
