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by mdpopescu 3375 days ago
This reminds me of the time when I saw the C code required to display a window in Windows, with all the things we've come to expect from one (close "x", system menu and so on). At the time (Windows 95 I think) it was around 80 lines of code.

I was surprised because in Delphi 2 that was a File / New Form followed by a Show or something like that... I never even thought of the API calls required to do all that.