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Q:<\/strong> As a .NET programmer, why do you care about being familiar with the Win32 API?<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> Because the .NET framework is just another abstraction, and I like to think that I’m a good programmer – and good programmers know that all abstractions are leaky<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: As a .NET programmer, why do you care about being familiar with the Win32 API? A: Because the .NET framework is just another abstraction, and I like to think that I’m a good programmer – and good programmers know that all abstractions are leaky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[201],"tags":[30,112,107,341,24],"class_list":["post-4398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-technology","tag-net","tag-code","tag-programming","tag-win32","tag-windows","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-18W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1202,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/07\/10\/the-greatest-bug-of-all\/","url_meta":{"origin":4398,"position":0},"title":"The Greatest Bug of All","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Call Me Fishmeal.: Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All This is great story... if you're a programmer. 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