I still have a little "battle fatigue" from writing an RTF converter about 15 years ago. It went from "Oh, this standard is pretty simple. I'm actually impress

I still have a little "battle fatigue" from writing an RTF converter about 15 years ago. It went from "Oh, this standard is pretty simple. I'm actually impressed that Microsoft made a reasaonble standard, that's pretty cool" to "OMFG what have you done to my youthful innocence?" -- importing tables was one of those exercises where you put your pride on the shelf and just write the code in front of you. "Okay, Microsoft. You want me to launch COM now, don't you? Fine. I'm down here in the muck, wallowing hip-deep in the filth, so what's one more flush of someone's toilet of an abstraction to me? I am invincible. Some day I will rise from this hole, ship the steaming mass I had to wrap around your already stinking soul, and know RTF no more." And I haven't.