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If there's another edition, it won't be from him, sad to say. > "In September 2018 I retired from my 34-year career of writing, speaking, and thinking about ap
by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
If there's another edition, it won't be from him, sad to say.
> "In September 2018 I retired from my 34-year career of writing, speaking, and thinking about application programming interfaces."
https://www.charlespetzold.com/about/ https://www.charlespetzold.com/about/
- ripley12 6y agoThat's unfortunate, Petzold had a knack for summarizing the essentials succinctly and explaining necessary context. I've been trying to get up to speed with modern Windows application development recently, and the official Microsoft documentation isn't good enough. The modern Windows app model has a really messy history, but the official docs mostly sweep that under the rug. I've been heavily relying on Petzold's book and comments by HN's very own contextfree[1], maybe he can write a book :) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237086