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But wasn't that as the expense of clarity for new developers? I remember a horrible graduation exam where I had to code in VisualStudio.

The Most harsh part was not coding or UI, it was determining which version of different window API had a remote chance to smoothly work together. (It involved DB drivers and data grids)



Perhaps. But I suspect there's a lot more extending and maintaining existing software than writing new software. For the former, backwards compatibility makes a huge difference.




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