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Describing Win32 as a "narrow waist" (hundreds of interfaces, thousands of calls, no idea how many structures) seems off the mark. I don't get it. It seems lik

• dotopotoro 4y ago
  > target got painted where the arrow landed. Commenting mainly to say that I like this phrase very very much. Creative, Witty and at the same time so descriptive. On the win32 point, it is adressed in the article: > I also realized that there are two distinct senses of the word "narrow": > - In terms of architectural connection (topology). For example, applications and physical networks are decoupled by the the Internet's narrow waist. They don't interface directly with each other. > - In terms of the size of the concept. <snip> But the web is a large set of concepts (HTTP, HTML, SVG, etc.).