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[Python-Dev] Winreg update

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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

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