Brings back horrid memories of learning Windows programming back in the mid nineties. From the very first line of code, Microsoft had you doing it their (nonstandard) way, making you use WinMain() instead of main(). That style, too... Yuck! Even today, I can somewhat reliably identify folks who were raised on the Windows SDK by looking for lpszHungarianNotation and UNREADABLEALLCAPSTYPEDEFS.
Does anyone remember why the original samples allocated structures on the heap, did stuff with them, then immediately freed them, rather than just using them on the stack directly? Was that a thing? Were early Windows systems stack constrained or something?
Does anyone remember why the original samples allocated structures on the heap, did stuff with them, then immediately freed them, rather than just using them on the stack directly? Was that a thing? Were early Windows systems stack constrained or something?