The Win32 implementations of [Perl] and [Python] more-or-less build in
direct access to all of [Microsoft]'s [Win32] API(s).  
The [API]s are a direct mapping of the APIs described in the SDK and (in [APN]'s admittedly biased opinion)
do not provide the kind of high level programming interface that is desirable in a 
scripting language.

[Tcl] provides access to Win32 APIs through extensions. See [TWAPI], [winapi] and [ffidl].
The APIs are accessible through high level programming interfaces as well as using raw Win32
calls for masochists who like to work that way :-)

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to the Win32 API
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[PT] The entire Win32 API documentation is available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/

Windows API Reference [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winprog/winprog/windows_api_reference.asp]

[BR] Note that the docs at the MSDN site do not include the actual values of manifest
constants.  This is a major source of grief for all Open Source projects dealing with
the details of the Windows API.  One could consider Microsofts actual headers as
complementing the documentation in this regard, the headers are part of the SDKs which
are available free of charge.  But most projects fear to use or even just look at those
because of possible copyright issues.<<br>>
[APN] The constant values can also be obtained from 
the [MinGW] distributions if you do not want to look at the SDK.
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