> Also, real programmers don't say DWORD. That's just silly. DWORD is a macro for an unsigned 32-bit integer. It has been around since the first version of Win

> Also, real programmers don't say DWORD. That's just silly. DWORD is a macro for an unsigned 32-bit integer. It has been around since the first version of Windows.h, along with BYTE and WORD for unsigned 8-bit and 16-bit integers. Any old-time Win16 or Win32 programmer like Joel or me would know the term and be likely to use it in the context of Windows programming. Keep in mind that Windows.h predated the modern definitions like uint32_t by many years. The original Windows developers had to come up with some names for these data types. It doesn't mean they weren't "real" programmers. Although I suppose, given that floating point processors were far from being standard equipment at the time, you could argue that they were integer programmers...