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From: "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>
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Would you call this study "Software Archeology" or "Software Anthropology"?
I'm wondering if we'd discover evidence proving the existence of Piltdown
Man... :-)

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"Samuel T. Harris" <u61783@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> wrote in message
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>
> 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.
>