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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Randy Brukardt expounded in news:idjsen$hg9$1@munin.nbi.dk:

> "Warren" <ve3wwg@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:Xns9E46A316BB94AWarrensBlatherings@81.169.183.62...
>> Shark8 expounded in
>> news:066181c0-9b80-4c17-a7b4-7ef28a297ea4@e16g2000pri.googl
>> egr oups.com:
> ...
>>> The argument could be made that if they were going to
>>> spend the time/ energy to use "real C++ types" they would
>>> have been better off doing it in Ada where the strong
>>> typing would help;
>>
>> That's academic- but they did use C++.
> 
> So far as I know, Win32 is written in C. I'm pretty sure
> about that, since Claw interfaces only using C (Stdcall)
> interfaces. There are a few recent parts of Win32 that have
> C++ counterparts, but the majority of it was designed
> before there was any such thing as C++ (most of it is a
> copy of Win16, after all). Thus the bizarre notations.
> 
>                                             Randy.

I was thinking about the MFC classes, which are C++. IIRC, 
there were still WORD and DWORD components within that. But 
its been years since I've looked. 

Warren