MS Office file format...
A normal programmer would conclude that Office’s binary file formats:
* are deliberately obfuscated
* are the product of a demented Borg mind
* were created by insanely bad programmers
* and are impossible to read or create correctly.
You’d be wrong on all four counts. With a little bit of digging, I’ll show you how those file formats got so unbelievably complicated, why it doesn’t reflect bad programming on Microsoft’s part, and what you can do to work around it.
[via joel]
Nennt mich feig aber RTF is mir lieber ("originale" spec kann man bei microsoft runterladen, is ne .exe file...)
* are deliberately obfuscated
* are the product of a demented Borg mind
* were created by insanely bad programmers
* and are impossible to read or create correctly.
You’d be wrong on all four counts. With a little bit of digging, I’ll show you how those file formats got so unbelievably complicated, why it doesn’t reflect bad programming on Microsoft’s part, and what you can do to work around it.
[via joel]
Nennt mich feig aber RTF is mir lieber ("originale" spec kann man bei microsoft runterladen, is ne .exe file...)
MasterOfDesaster - 2008-02-20 15:59
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