OpenEuphoria

Re: Food For Thought

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Jul 03, 2001
• 351 views

>From: <irvm at ellijay.com>
>Most people
>would rather get the job done fast and correctly, without having
>to waste their time learning the ins and outs of the Windows API.

Lets rely on the very few and not try to learn....
Im constantly reminded of going to the store and the person
behind the register that doesnt know how to give the correct change
because the batteries in their calculator died.

>I drive a car. It's nice to be able to do that without first taking
>courses in thermodynamics,  fluid mechanics, and metallurgy.
>Maybe if I did know all those things, and invested a lot of time
>and money in it, my car would run faster - maybe not.
>Much easier to just go buy a faster car.

Your analogy of buying a car while obvious a good bit
of advice has not much to do with API codeing.

Just last week someone asked how to make RichEdit
accept files larger than 65k and I replied with
EM_EXLIMITTEXT which can be found in the SDK.

Sure the person that needed this info didnt look before
he/she asked the question. Am I to assume that to drive the
car you mentioned earlier doesnt require we take a road test
first or learn how to start the engine?

True, knowing the engine and metalurgy isnt/shouldnt be
required to drive the car but isnt that the same as MS
doing the work and making the DLL's that we use to API program?

After all, we have the keys to this car in their SDK all
we have to do now is turn the key to start the engine........

NEXT!

Euman
euman at bellsouth.net