Re: Building GUI with C

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From: Manish Agarwal (manish.agarwal_at_mphasis.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:11:12 +0530

> SORRY; I'M SURE IT'S THE WRONG FORUM; BUT I'M SURE Y'ALL WOULD KNOW THE
> ANSWER!!!
I don't think that there is a newsgroup for C discussion at
news://msnews.microsoft.com
discuses you question at
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.lang.c

> I was just wondering if you could build GUI's in C (original C).
Yes, using Win32 API for windows you can do it.

> ALSO; why do most say C (original) is the best language??
In terms of the program execution performance C is the best. But there are
other factors like maintainability, rapid development etc. which in favor of
C++, C#

-Manish

"Radith Silva" <radith@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
news:e0oyP8fbEHA.4060@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> SORRY; I'M SURE IT'S THE WRONG FORUM; BUT I'M SURE Y'ALL WOULD KNOW THE
> ANSWER!!!
>
> Hi;
>
> I was just wondering if you could build GUI's in C (original C). From
> what I've seen, the programs made in C just run on DOS in it's command
> prompt. I mean it doesn't pop out of DOS (like when you run IE) but all
> programs are just command-line programs. But I'm sure you can build
> programs with buttons and menus like you could with JAVA. Can you??
> (with the original C)
>
> ALSO; why do most say C (original) is the best language??
>
> Cheers.
>
> **What I mean by C is the original (NOT C# or C++)
>
> Radith Silva
>
>
>
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