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Re:.NET 6 Released by vidanay on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:01PM (#29152878)
30 years ago we used DOS and DLL Hell was a completely unknown concept. We did have to deal with himem.sys though.
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Re:.NET 6 Released by justin66 on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:19PM (#29153064)
On the contrary, 30 years ago we were using Windows 3.0, which is about when dll hell started being a real thing.

(DLL hell stopped being a problem a lot sooner than you probably think, too...)

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Re:.NET 6 Released by nisegami on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @10:37AM (#29163107)
>DLL hell stopped being a problem a lot sooner than you probably think, too

Does not match my experience at work unfortunately.

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Re:.NET 6 Released by justin66 on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @11:36AM (#29163908)
If you're seeing this on any version of Windows made in the last 22 years or so, it's because a software developer fucked up in a really creative way. My condolences.

Sometimes the issue is that people have tended to conflate "dll hell" and "dependency hell." That's an old pet peeve of mine and I realize it doesn't matter...

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