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Because the people who wrote this are lazy and don’t know what they are doing. They should not be writing this kind of software.
by tinus_hn 7y ago
Because the people who wrote this are lazy and don’t know what they are doing. They should not be writing this kind of software.
- empath75 7y agoprobably more that reader is a big pile of legacy code that is decades old.
- ddevault 7y agoThis is the same thing.
- tinus_hn 7y agoMac OS X is not decades old so neither is this platform specific upgrade mechanism.
- saagarjha 7y agoMac OS X will be "decades old" in just under a year ;)
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- varikin 7y agoYou're right, it's only 19 years old. But it might have a cross platform C++ library for parsing PDFs that is even older that was used on OS 9 and other platforms.
- tinus_hn 7y agoSo? The issues in this article are in the update mechanism, not the PDF handling.