API Programming Series #1

13 Jul 2002 | by Sreejath S. Warrier | Filed in

What are the cons?

I guess I went a bit overboard in praising the API. Because, for all its advantages, API programming does have some critical disadvantages.

First of all there is the learning curve. An equivalent of our simple MsgBox function has parameters that would require the services of a qualified astrologer to make sense of, if you are a newbie.
It is much less forgiving of programmer errors and it is child's play to crash your application or your system with a malformed API call. And certain API calls when (im) properly used can even render your system unbootable or worse.
Then, true to Microsoft tradition some API calls do not work as advertised.
[Editors Note]If you eventually start programming with the .net framework, api calls become a legacy; API is windows specific, and - believe it or not - the .NET framework is intended to be platform independant[/Editors Note]

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