Describing Win32 as a "narrow waist" (hundreds of interfaces, thousands of calls, no idea how many structures) seems off the mark.
I don't get it. It seems like the target got painted where the arrow landed.
I don't get it. It seems like the target got painted where the arrow landed.
Commenting mainly to say that I like this phrase very very much. Creative, Witty and at the same time so descriptive.
On the win32 point, it is adressed in the article:
> I also realized that there are two distinct senses of the word "narrow":
> - In terms of architectural connection (topology). For example, applications and physical networks are decoupled by the the Internet's narrow waist. They don't interface directly with each other.
> - In terms of the size of the concept. <snip> But the web is a large set of concepts (HTTP, HTML, SVG, etc.).