IT - Too easy these days.

[bobhope]

I was in the last year that assembly language was mandatory (early 90s) in computer science at University.

Not quite sure how you can get a degree in CS without learning assembler.

[suityou01]

ISTR that he did point out reasonably that

printf("Hello, World");

will not do all that the Windows program does, until you write your window manager too.

Is true. However take a look at GTK+

It's a C based framework for windows GUI building. I had a play around over christmas when I was benched. Fracking loved it.

[VectraMan]

Is true. However take a look at GTK+

It's a C based framework for windows GUI building. I had a play around over christmas when I was benched. Fracking loved it.

C based was the problem. That's why the Petzold program started with this sort of thing:

		WNDCLASSEXW wndclass;
		wndclass.cbSize = sizeof(wndclass);
		wndclass.style = CS_GLOBALCLASS | CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
		wndclass.lpfnWndProc = WndProc;
		wndclass.cbClsExtra = 0;
		wndclass.cbWndExtra = 0;
		wndclass.hInstance = hInstance;
		wndclass.hIcon = NULL;
		wndclass.hCursor = NULL;
		wndclass.hbrBackground = NULL;
		wndclass.lpszMenuName = NULL;
		wndclass.lpszClassName = L"Wibble";
		wndclass.hIconSm = 0;
		result = ::RegisterClassExW(&wndclass) != 0;

If the Windows API had been based around OOP langauges (i.e. C++), it would have all been a lot simpler and better.

[MGM]

From the school of Oric-1 urban terrorism, (Currys, with TV sound turned up to max)

10 WAIT 60
20 PRINT "MGM WAS HERE";
30 PING
40 ZAP
50 EXPLODE
60 GOTO 20

This also locked up the keyboard and left many a red-faced shop assistant running around trying to stop the noise!!!