>>> Almost all business logic.
>>
>> I suppose I should consider myself lucky that I'm never going to be
>> writing anything like that.
>
> Why not? Didn't you rewrite the code to compile your danse tournament
> rankings?

I did not "rewrite" anything. I merely wrote a program that downloads 
some web pages and attempts to extract the raw data from them. And that 
is all.

(The organiser's website is obnoxiously difficult to navigate. 
Fortunately I was able to reverse-engineer how the URLs are generated...)

> I know you only did it for yourself, but that was business
> logic, even if you weren't using WebSphere, J2EE, Weblogic or some big
> platform like that.

OK.

>> So... how is it ever possible to statically link software?
>
> You have to take extra steps to make sure it works.

Really?

> For example, back in
> the days of Windows 3.1, you had to use the Pascal calling convention
> for your functions in order to make sure that they could interact with
> other modules. (Maybe it's still that way, I haven't touched a C program
> in 15 years.)

So what you're saying is "the C calling convention is undefined, but the 
OS calling convention is not"?

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