I discovered Raymond Chen's blog some weeks ago and I started reading all the posts that I could, it is fascinating and very well written. All the problems tha

I discovered Raymond Chen's blog some weeks ago and I started reading all the posts that I could, it is fascinating and very well written. All the problems that Windows developers had to face for compatibility almost make me sympathize with them. Some context is given in Joel Spolsky's "How Microsoft Lost the API War" (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html), where he talks about "The Raymond Chen Camp".