[mschuster91]

It's similar to the stuff you see in a raw "mysqldump" output, PHP extensions or in Microsoft's C stdlib headers. Shitloads of stuff hidden between #ifdef VER > xxx.

Pretty easy to deal with, tbh. And it's flexible as hell.

You can flame MS for a LOT of things, but not for ignoring backwards compatibility. You can take most age-old VC6 projects, import them in a modern VS version, and BUILD them and it will WORK.

Not so much in the Linux space. A statically compiled binary from Win95 may very well run on a Win7 machine (e.g. EarthSiege 2)... good luck trying to get a Linux binary from the same era running on a similarly fresh Linux kernel.