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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Programming for MS-Windows
Date: 1996/09/16
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Marc wrote:
> I am looking for a textbook that might explain how to write MS-Windows
> applications. I have some (DOS-praogramming) experience in ADA, C and
> Fortran77, but the step from programming DOS applications to Windows
> applications seems quite huge to me.
> All the information I have found about writing Windows-stuff, was
> related to learning C++, something I do not intend right now.
> 

I just picked up a copy of "Programming Windows 95" by Charles Petzold, 
from Microsoft Press. He explains how Windows works, using C code as 
examples. No C++, no GUI builders, no IDEs to get in the way. Given a 
thin Ada binding to the Windows API, this is the book you want.

-- 
- Stephe