> It's noticeable that a lot of the "hacks" refer to individual applications... a Borland compiler came to depend on an existing bug, so their fix worked to pre

> It's noticeable that a lot of the "hacks" refer to individual applications... a Borland compiler came to depend on an existing bug, so their fix worked to preserve some of the bug's behaviour Hyrum's law states: "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract, all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."