This is what happens when you work at a company which doesn't have the sense and engineering leadership to arrive at a single core set of collections and such a

This is what happens when you work at a company which doesn't have the sense and engineering leadership to arrive at a single core set of collections and such ala CoreFoundation: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CoreFoundation_Collection/index.html http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/CoreFou... Microsoft has a hodge podge of several attempts at the same, and because none is truly core and universally available, it's quite easy to be ignorant of what's available and roll your own crappy, limited data structures.