Joel on Software recently wrote an interesting piece on the newly-published MS Office file format specifications. It’s a bit off-topic for my blog, but I found the history responsible for the extreme complexity of these files to be fascinating. It goes to show that even with good intentions, software can get out of hand when it sticks around for a decade. As Joel says:
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.
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