Laurie write: | FWIW Muse does not use any "secret", or undocumented parts of the Windows | interface. | | (During my time in the Windows Systems group in MS I never came across any | interfaces that were intended to be secret. What I did find were places | where an app had been developed to an early-version interface that we in | Windows had thought better of and replaced in the released product by | something that worked better. Meanwhile the guys in the apps group didn't | feel much like rewriting *their* stuff just because we were too stupid to | have all our second thoughts first. So the thing would be left in but | undocumented). Of course, there may have been secrets that I wasn't told | (almost "by definition of secret").
Yeah; in my experience this is the usual origin of such "secrets". There are lots of conspiracy theories, and probably a few of them are valid. But this sort of organizational chaos is probably much more common. "Never attribute to malice ..." This isn't much consolation for a software developer, of course. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
