This is so true, and has been forever. In the early 90s I worked on a system where you couldn't just write structs, rather you had to submit their definition to

This is so true, and has been forever. In the early 90s I worked on a system where you couldn't just write structs, rather you had to submit their definition to a guy who entered the details into a database, and there was a daily run to generate the C header files from that database. To this day I'm convinced the only reason it was done this way was that it could be done this way.