>>but evidently some people enjoy inflicting needless pain. another example is the filth surrounding 64 bit file sizes and offsets on 'nix. (give me strength.)
during the early streams/socket wars someone coined the term `incompatibility library'. that's one that purports to provide compatibility with another interface so you can use your existing source and binaries but gets it wrong enough that you need to change and recompile them anyway, so that you didn't need the library.
