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If you're racing to hit a deadline, you don't want dependencies on other teams. So if the designers have drawn up the UI for the next major refresh, Office doe
by barrkel 6y ago
If you're racing to hit a deadline, you don't want dependencies on other teams.
So if the designers have drawn up the UI for the next major refresh, Office doesn't need to wait for the shell team to have implemented the controls, or for development to have them wrapped up in MFC.
If the dependencies already exist, you're on safer ground. Though team culture may choose otherwise; I understood Excel didn't like having any external dependencies.
- chipperyman573 6y agoDid excel not even use any math libraries? Seems kind of silly to re-create that wheel, espically when we've proven that many of our algorithms are mathematically impossible to improve, and excel is so heavily focused on math work.
- yodon 6y agoYou might enjoy this [0] post on a bit of the history of Excel math libraries [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
- chipperyman573 6y agoI did enjoy that! Thanks for sharing, it was really interesting.
- m0zg 6y agoBetter roll their own OS then. And then their own hardware and semiconductors as well.
- karmakaze 6y agoSeems to be working for Apple.