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> .NET is excellent, but the lower level APIs look horrible.

It is, more or less, what it is. lower level APIs cannot change without breaking backwards compatiblity. Microsoft as an organization is all about backwards compatibility. So this is just not going away, like you say there is stuff in there from DOS that will just not ever go away.



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