A gentle critque..

[Ben Cooley]

In article <e4dq4u$4ub$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Jarrett Billingsley says...
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>"Ben Cooley" <Ben_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
>news:e4dprq$4ga$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> Compared to what?  A multi-year project to convert the C Windows API to D 
>> so
>> that Windows software can finally be written?
>
>Well, that's a pretty poor comparison, but the reason the Windows API (that 
>is, just the header files) have taken so long is dues to copyright issues. 
>We're not technically allowed to programmatically convert the official 
>Windows headers over; that's been done, and it was done _ages_ ago.  But 
>it's not legal.  So, instead, it has to be done the way it's being done, and 
>as such, it's taken a while.  Or rather, it hasn't taken that long, 
>considering it started just a month or two ago.
>
>People have been writing Windows programs in D for a long time now.  I mean, 
>there's even a section about it in the spec.  It's not like we've been 
>diddling around on the console all this time. 

Right.  My mistake then.  

I knew that you could link with Windows libs, but I didn't know that you could
actually code to a reasonably current version of the Windows API.