Writing solid code

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• hyperrail · 2026-04-12 in Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS

  Indeed, even ones from companies as big as Microsoft! There is a story in Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire [1] where Apple asked Microsoft to fix hacks in its Mac apps that didn't conform to the developer docs in Inside Macintosh because such workarounds were required when the apps were first developed alongside the original Macintoshes. However, Microsoft's workarounds would be broken by a ma…