I was going to write about why C# doesn’t have “const”, but Stan Lippman already discussed this in A Question of Const, so now I don’t have to.
(And another example of synchronicity: After I wrote up this item and tossed it into the queue, Eric Gunnerson took up the topic as well.
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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