On 10/27/2010 01:18 AM, Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
Mandatory training for all residents of Washington State regarding the
Principle of Least Astonishme
I can only imagine how that conversation went:
Developer: Hey boss!
Architect: Yes, developer?
Developer: All the critical system librariess have names like
"kernel32.dll". For the 64-bit port, shall we then build them as
"kernel64" and so on?
Architect: Negative. We've hard-coded the name "kernel32" everywhere
since the transition from 16-bit Windows. Therefore, both the 32-bit and
64-bit versions will be named "kernel32".
Developer: But how will anyone ever tell them apart?
Architect: Oh that's easy. We'll just put the new 64-bit ones in the
"system32" directory, and separate the 32-bit ones into a new
subdirectory called "SysWOW64".
[cue Yakety Sax]
- Marsh
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