"SvenC" wrote:
I heard that there are still Cobol projects in production and
its hard to get specialist out of retirement.
I don't hold any grudges against legacy technologies. They can
keep every article from 80's, too, for what I care. But I do care
about MS specific info that cannot be retrieved from elsewhere
except from MS itself. Like C++ implementation under the hood, or
other Windows specific in-depths topics that Rymond Chen, Larry
Osterman et al cover in their blogs. I hate spending hours by
assembling puzzles from blog entries, kilometers of comments and
tons of Usenet posts in order to figure out how MS C++ compiler
handles virtual tables, for example. This information must be in
MSDN library for every version of the compiler.
Only if it comes with a warning "For debugging purposes only. These details
behavior according to the C++ standard stop working.