Re: May I introduce myself to cobol?...

From: Kellie Fitton (KELLIEFITTON_at_YAHOO.COM)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: 16 Feb 2005 10:20:02 -0800

Hi Rien,
first of all, a clarification on what the win32 API
functions are. The win32 API's is a generic term
meaning "Application Programming Interface",
However, in the context of the OS Windows
programming, it means specifically the Windows
API's, which is the Lowest-Level of Interaction
between an applications and the existing
Operating System. Drivers of course have even
lower-levels code, and maybe different sets of
function calls to work with, but for the majority of
windows development, this is not a problem at
all. That said, if a business application is
running on a different OS other than windows,
then these programs are using some low-level
system library supports (Assembly api or
C++ api), which is the same thing as the win32
API's --- except it is coded for a different
environment, with different names and maybe
different entry-points. After all, why would you
re-invent the cobol wheel? Regards.

Kellie.

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