Gibney, Dave wrote:
A problem is that many applications programmers are to busy, or don't care enough for such exploration and manual reading.
Agreed. Just don't blame the sysprogs ...
At least some of those who do have such an inclination or "the knack", well, they used to become systems programmers :)
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