On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Let Microsoft play with, and sell, pretty GUIs and pretty apps. > I completely disagree. MS sucks at making GUIs. >
I never said they were good at making GUIs. I said they were good at selling GUIs. Dan is right about the ugliness of the Windows APIs. There are innumerable anomalies between otherwise-similar functions, weird behaviours that may and may not have historical precedent, and enough hair-pulling fuel to turn you bald in a week. Also, and possibly more serious, the security features that Windows has mostly seem to have been monkey-patched in; and there are ridiculous vulnerabilities just waiting to be exploited. The WM_TIMER message can be sent by any process to any process, and one of its parameters is the address of a callback - and voila, other process starts executing code at that address. And this works even if the program doesn't use timers. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
