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Old Jun 24th, 2005, 10:28 AM   #2
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My opinion: competent programmers, for any serious work, always design first, rather than code from the seat of their pants. This generally requires having a reference handy to the design as well as a reference to the functions used from other libraries. I grant you that oft-used functions, in their oft-used incarnation, may well just flow from the fingertips. Whether the references are on paper or in a window brought up by a documentation link, they are probably vital. The Win API is not a trivial thing.
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