> growing organically by overworked developers hacking in whatever they needed right now One of my personal favorite examples of this is the GetRandomRgn funct

> growing organically by overworked developers hacking in whatever they needed right now One of my personal favorite examples of this is the GetRandomRgn function in Windows's windowing API. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd144918%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd1... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/06/18/10321212.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/06/18/10321...