Fnding your code on the cutting room floor decades after the event
Ever thought you'd committed an elegant bit of code, only to find that somebody else decided to drop it because"that's the way we've always done things"? If so, you aren't alone. It happens to Microsoft engineers too.Plummer worked on elements of the Windows experience, such as the Task Manager, and had a hand in porting the Start Menu from Windows 95 to Windows NT.
Plummer talked to the shell's main developer, who confirmed the story. He said:"I wrote the programmatic version in '94 and we ran it internally, but it appears the setup/design team made the change after the code was written, and didn't use it. It came as news to me as well!" The shock of discovering that your work was unceremoniously ditched years after the event is something that will be all too familiar to engineers and designers of a certain vintage. More than once, we've examined a product and wondered what happened to our contribution. However, in the case of this writer, the removal of code was more likely due to it being terrible than anything else.
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