-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am quite surprized every windows user rant the lack of future, but none of them write the code to improve the situation... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I suspect that Windows developers fall more clearly into two groups, which we can call high-level and low-level, than is maybe the case with some other programming environments.
The 'high-level' group use a language like Visual Basic and their expertise is more to use their relatively easy-to-code environment to produce programs quickly and cheaply plus those programs that meet niche requirements that maybe couldn't be created cost-effectively any other way. But by and large these programmers often don't have the skills of using lower level languages eg in the C family as would probably be necessary to write an encoder from scratch. The 'low-level' group know eg C and the accompanying details of the Windows API and can use eg the LAME dll as it stands. So the 'high-level' group don't have the necessary skills and the 'low-level' group don't have the motivation.
I'm certainly in the VB group and, without devoting perhaps 6-12 months or more of my life full-time to it, wouldn't know where to start in writing an encoder from scratch in say C. But I'm reasonably comfortable using the COM interface of a dll, if one exists, to include functionality within a larger project and I suspect that many Windows developers are in the same position.
John Dann
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