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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Inside Win32
Date: 15 Oct 2009 04:19:28
Message: <4ad6db10@news.povray.org>
>>> Sweet. I haven't taken the time to figure out how they unify the 
>>> functional with all the stateful OO libraries.
>>
>> The real world is stateful. Almost all functional languages must have 
>> a strategy for dealing with real-world state. Just apply the same 
>> technique (whatever it is) to dealing with stateful APIs.
> 
> Well, yes, except I suspect that's not how F# does it. :-)

I haven't researched it yet, but I suspect you'll find it *is* how it 
does it. ;-)


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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Inside Win32
Date: 15 Oct 2009 09:28:03
Message: <4ad72363$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/15/2009 3:18 AM, Invisible wrote:

> What's the PlatformSDK?

Actually, it's called Windows SDK, now ...
-- 
~Mike


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Inside Win32
Date: 15 Oct 2009 09:31:47
Message: <4ad72443$1@news.povray.org>
>> What's the PlatformSDK?
> 
> Actually, it's called Windows SDK, now ...

Oh, OK.

So... presumably it's a big box full of header files and so forth?


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From: scott
Subject: Re: Inside Win32
Date: 15 Oct 2009 09:43:16
Message: <4ad726f4$1@news.povray.org>
>> Actually, it's called Windows SDK, now ...
>
> Oh, OK.
>
> So... presumably it's a big box full of header files and so forth?

"The Microsoft Windows SDK (Software Development Kit) is a software 
development kit from Microsoft that contains header files, libraries, 
samples, documentation and tools utilizing the APIs required to develop 
applications" ... "The package contains an extensive documentation and 
nearly 1000 samples."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_SDK


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Inside Win32
Date: 15 Oct 2009 09:48:29
Message: <4ad7282d$1@news.povray.org>
> "The Microsoft Windows SDK (Software Development Kit) is a software 
> development kit from Microsoft that contains header files, libraries, 
> samples, documentation and tools utilizing the APIs required to develop 
> applications" ... "The package contains an extensive documentation and 
> nearly 1000 samples."
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_SDK

OK, that sounds like the puppy then...


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From: scott
Subject: Re: Inside Win32
Date: 15 Oct 2009 11:11:34
Message: <4ad73ba6@news.povray.org>
> OK, that sounds like the puppy then...

More like beast than puppy :-)

BTW I have wincodec.h on my machine, must have been installed as part of 
MSVS C++ or something.


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From: Saul Luizaga
Subject: Re: Inside Win32
Date: 21 Oct 2009 10:29:57
Message: <4adf1ae5$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> As far as I can tell, a *.COM file is just a file containing raw machine 
> code. You load the entire file into memory, starting at a predefined 
> base address [I forget what that is],

Remember 'org 100h'?

  and jump to byte 0. And that's all
> there is to it.


And the reason I love them :-)


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