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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <u61783@gsde.hou.us.ray.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Follies (was: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released)
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 15:19:16 -0500
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Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> Excellent point! Even with absolute control over their own product, they
> couldn't stop it from diverging! Sort of the "Tower of Babel" all over
> again. Internally, you have a community of programmers (& managers) who
> aren't going to be nice little robots all performing in lock-step ballet
> with each other. For business reasons and probably also for turf-wars,
> protection of feifdoms, etc., multiple paths evolved. Maybe you can exercise
> more discipline over the programmers & managers internally than you could
> over a widespread group of OSS developers - but still, managing programmers
> is like hearding cats... :-)
> 

Once thing which continues to amuse me is that when I
look at the Windows API stuff, I can identify different
"epochs" of API creation. Naming schemes, the order of
parameters, the style of the documentation all show a
partitioning of the calls into little stylistically
consistent groups.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"