The engineers wanted to write a thin encabulation module in K++, but management insisted that the engineering team use the industry standard Encabulate.moo library, and the Cows on Crack framework doesn't have a stable ABI.
Though it would be nice to blame this on Management (who are often the root cause of all sorts of screw ups) - managers generally have no idea of, let alone interest, in build systems. We did this to ourselves.
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