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Search for SimCity in this item: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html It's kinda strange for a
by hga 10y ago
Search for SimCity in this item: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
It's kinda strange for an OS to be maintained for a long time with that style of backwards compatibility....
- angersock 10y agoOnly if by "strange" you mean "fucking lucrative". A lot of folks are used to the crazy ship-all-the-time-regardless-of-cost world of webdev, but there is a lot of business value in not breaking things randomly.
- huhtenberg 10y agoBack in Windows 2000 days if you are to run something like SoftICE or DebugView and look at live debug trace from the kernel, you'd see various funny messages referring to this IE bug and that Outlook quirk being worked around. That is, instead of fixing their userspace mess they dealt with in the kernel.