[Python-Dev] Winreg update (original) (raw)

Paul Prescod paul@prescod.net
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:56:23 -0400

Greg Ward wrote:

... I'm all in favour of high-level interfaces, and I'm also in favour of speaking the local tongue -- when in Windows, follow the Windows API (at least for features that are totally Windows-specific, like the registry).

At this point, the question is not whether to follow the Microsoft API or not (any more). It is whether to follow the early 1990s Microsoft API for C programmers or the new Microsoft API for Visual Basic, C#, Eiffel and Javascript programmers.

-- Paul Prescod - Not encumbered by corporate consensus Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. - http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html