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Why is that?

• ahartmetz 8y ago
  It is probably easier to figure out what it should be doing. With Office, sometimes you just have to line break like Word 97 (I am not making this up, it was a bad example of the so-called open format "OOXML"), which is much easier when you can just call the original Word 97 code, bugs and all.
• monocasa 8y ago
  Office is somewhere around an order of magnitude of so more code, everything I've heard is that it's nightmare fuel levels of legacy code that defies even refactoring within the same language, and has a bad habit of slurping up binary formats and doing crazy internal YOLO pointer chasing.
  • nineteen999 8y ago
    > and has a bad habit of slurping up binary formats and doing crazy internal YOLO pointer chasing. ... you know that this about what 9/10th's of an operating systems device driver code look like, right?
    • monocasa 8y ago
      Not from externally imported data. That's a privilege escalation vulnerability when the kernel pulls that crap.