> click on the “books” tab - the author is a technologist
That's rather underselling him. Charles Petzold wrote the canonical reference works for programming Win32 and MFC.
It's like calling Donald Knuth a lecturer.
> click on the “books” tab - the author is a technologist
That's rather underselling him. Charles Petzold wrote the canonical reference works for programming Win32 and MFC.
It's like calling Donald Knuth a lecturer.
His book ‘Code’ is his masterpiece, IMO.
It’s a tour de force in technical communication. A fascinating book for both the Computer Science novice and expert.
His 'Annotated Turing' (a reproduction of On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem, with explanation and walk-through) got me into CS vs. prior interest mainly in EE.
“Code” is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I don’t usually read 500 page books but this one flew. Even if you know most of what’s being discussed it’s such a delightful ride.
For the curious:
> Microsoft provides two frameworks for developing Windows applications: MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) and Win32. MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) is a Microsoft framework for developing Windows applications in the C++ programming language. Win32 is a collection of functions and data structures provided by Microsoft for the development of Windows applications. [0]
[0] https://www.tutorialspoint.com/article/difference-between-mf...
That's old info. Now there is also .NET Framework, .NET (Core), C++/WinRT and more. In the end all of them use either pure Win32 APIs or COM APIs including MFC.
Apologies, I wasn’t familiar with his work.
I was surprised to see a post by Petzold on this subject. I know who he is. But I don’t think you owe an apology here. I think you made a thoughtful comment. A post like his should be critiqued for what it says, not for the author’s previous work. And, fortunately, other people could give context on the significant work he has done.
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Not sure what you're trying to say. I'm not arguing from authority. I'm just a guy giving my opinion. That's what comment sections are for.
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I'm familiar with the subject matter. I'm not familiar with the author.
I love classical music. I've been singing in a choir since I was 7, playing the piano since the same age, and compose music myself (https://youtu.be/7Tex-OUk6ZM). I’m actually on my way to church right now to sing some Howells.
I use Spotify every day
I use AI every day
I have enough familiarity with the subject to have an opinion and express it. I'm sorry that I haven't read the author's book.
You're not wrong. If comment sections were restricted to people who knew the subject matter AND the author, it would be empty indeed.
Snobbish and elitist defined.
I love classical music, and I am convinced that 90% of the reason people think they don't is because of people like the Charles Petzold. Deriving your self worth from being an enjoyer of art that someone else created is the high pretention.
I've learned, sometimes through hard periods of self reflection, that attempting qualitative evaluation of others choice in music is a fools errand.
To put it bluntly, and quote Duke Ellington, by way of Peter Schickele, if if it sounds good, it is good
The MF what?
Classes. MF classes.
That stuff will never wash out of my mind.
Pascal, C, or C++, it depends what mood they were in.