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Re:An Introduction to C and GUI Programming by freshm087 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:08AM (#19739112)
There's a school of thought which considers complex data types to be more a part of problem then a solution. You may disagree with it, but nevertheless one certainly doesn't need complex data types to write GUI (or anything) effectively.

Also, in this universe Win32 API was released in 90s, not 80s.

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Re:An Introduction to C and GUI Programming by sdegutis on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:26AM (#19739313)
The complexity should be the same no matter what language you use, but how you structure and organize that complexity changes drastically. Hence in Ruby it takes only 2-3 lines of code to accomplish what in Java requires a few ItemFactories.
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Re:An Introduction to C and GUI Programming by badsectoracula on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @04:36PM (#19742343)
> Win32 API was released in 90s, not 80s.

Yeah, well, kinda... technically you are correct but Win32 is 99.998% backwards compatible (as an API, not ABI) with Win16 which was first released in the 80s.

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Re:An Introduction to C and GUI Programming by Rerarom on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:13PM (#19739884)
#MandelaEffect
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