The purpose of this site is to share a little of my experiance in programming for windows
The majority of the code on this site is C/C++ because that is my language of choice, this does not meant the site is without relavance to programmers using other languages.
Skip the code and you should still get an appreciation for what needs to be done.
Windows is written in C. predominantly all operating systems are written in C. Visual Basic, Java, PERL, Python etc.. are abstractions which are written in C, in other words thay are programs that are designed to remove some of the complexity involved in writing in C. (scripting languages like perl try to emulate C/C++)
By definition that means these programs are not as fast and not as powerful
Now I know this will raise the hackles on some readers necks, These languages are constantly upgrading and implementing new features. This is to redress some of these deficiencies.
The first article in this series is about Threads
to learn more about Threads in Windows follow this link