Implemented by intention vs implemented by history

If there's anything I've learned from reading Raymond's blogs, it's that Windows internals actually make a fair bit of sense. Every weird thing I've ever seen him address turns out to be something that has had real thought and engineering put into it, and if the solution is ugly that seems to be more due to external constraints placed upon the engineers than it is the engineers doing weird stuff shooting from the hip.

We all knew this kind of guys. Bless them