From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-01-22, Thomas Köllmer  wrote:   
   > Marco van de Voort:   
   >   
   >> A good book about thunking would be more worthwhile...   
   >   
   > You don't know enough about the good old German (Thuringian) information   
   > science lessons: Write a program in Turbo Pascal for Windows.   
      
   That is not necessarily bad. Can be very didactically ok. When I was   
   attended some lessons a year back with some programming virgins, I noticed   
   how confused by full-scale IDE/RADs and visual class hierachies they were.   
   (Jbuilder mostly).   
      
   For some embedded programming lessons we had to use something simpler (Keile   
   C51), but though the contents of the lessons were much more difficult.   
   (assembler programming, OS theory), people were more able with it.   
      
   > I'd prefer Delphi... ok I'd prefer C#, but that's not the point, we have   
   > to do it in TPW.   
      
   I'd prefer plain tp.   
      
   However the point is, in the real world you choose a problem, and then   
   a environment to solve it that suits it.   
      
   For you it is the other way around. You seem to have a your environment   
   chosen for you, which means you must find a problem to solve that matches   
   the possibilities of the environment. (which means 16-bit windows api)   
      
   > My idea was to make a simple Email-Client (pop/smtp, maybe imap), not a   
   > winsock-unit. This would make it much more complicated than necessary and   
   > honestly: Imo it's not worth doing it.   
      
   Exactly my opinion also. Problem doesn't match environment ;-)   
      
   > Thomas, hoping that you understand my 'English'   
      
   Sure.   
      
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