In that same era, there were other proprietary programming languages just outside the mainstream that also attempted to abstract the low-level details of workin

In that same era, there were other proprietary programming languages just outside the mainstream that also attempted to abstract the low-level details of working with the Windows API. The Whitewater Group's Actor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_(programming_language) Liana ( the formatting for the article below renders strangely in my browser ): http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/the-liana-programming-language/184409088 http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/the-liana-programming-language/18...