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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:38:42 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:25:21 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> On 3/10/2025 8:07 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> Surely events relevant to entries in the list should be
>> serviced in the order they arrive, not in the order in which the
>> entries happen to occur in the list. There is no other reasonable way
>> to do it.
> 
> Well, it just the way WFMO is implemented.

Typical of Microsoft to go for convenience of implementation rather than 
correctness of behaviour, isn’t it.

Also Dave Cutler, the mastermind behind Windows NT, was trying to 
(re)create an OS like the ones his former employer, DEC, used to make. 
(Many of the quirks in Windows make more sense when you look at it in this 
light.) The company was dominated by Unix-haters at the time, and he was 
one of them.