Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:14:27 +0100
From: Tim Robinson <timothy DOT robinson AT ic DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Plug-ins......?
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:14:41 +0600 (LKT)
Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx> wrote:

> No you don't have to do windoze programmin, Actually it would be wise to
> remember that the original purpose of DLL's was to enable the sharing of
> resources etc, but then some crappy programmers realised that if there is
> a bit of code that they aren't sure of, all they had to do was to put it
> in a DLL and ship the product, and once they find the problem all they had
> to do was to send only the DLL...a crappy approach as you may see, which
> has led to innumerable problems..

Like Microsoft Plus!: they didn't have time (supposedly) to put some
stuff into the base version of Win95, so they thought "I know, we'll put
it all in a DLL and sell it at an inflated price after the OS comes
out".

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Tim Robinson
timothy DOT robinson AT ic DOT ac DOT uk