OT Windows Profanity - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Mar 2004

Don't know how I missed this thread... seems I'm not recieving all of the group
mail.

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 A month ago Monday the windows source code leak
happened 
and at least one commentator, Michelle DeLeo(sp?) of Wired magazine
said that the source was "filled with profanity".  I'd like to find a few
sites with more information on this.  Anybody have some good 
places to go find out more?         A reply offline is fine.
TIA  John A.  
John... I actually have a copy of the Winblows source code and so far have not found any
profanity... will keep looking.

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 Just as a comparative data point - when Australia
passed its blue 
laws, there were some concerns as to whether the Linux source would 
pass scrutiny.  The "F Word" appears very frequently in the comments.
 Doc  
Somehow I'm not suprised.

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 Yeah, I remember most of my code told tales of evil
hardware
bugs in the comments... :)
--f  
LOL... but of course... source code would be source code without the occaisional bit of
cussing.

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 I believe profanity is a common in most likely most
source code.    I 
have had the opportunity to examine extensive amounts of source code 
from Atari and it is filled with profanity, poems, quotes, jokes and 
inside-jokes...
I think its a way of blowing off steam for programmers and quite frankly 
it adds a more personal touch to code to see that it wasn't just written 
by a bunch of drones, but from creative, feeling people with a sense of 
humor.
Curt  
Good point... always nice to know that the programmers aren't in fact some highly
advanced robots or something.

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 Well, I've done it before:
"What kind of brain-damaged drone designed this piece of (excrement)?"
"This compiler needs a rewrite. Preferably by someone who isn't a (*beep*)ing
moron"
"Now for something pointless and unnecessary" (just before a "write the
same
thing to a port ten times" loop)
"The (*beep*)head who designed this API should be hung, drawn and quartered"
As you can probably guess, I haven't had much luck with compilers, especially
the MICROS~1 compiler.  
LOL... gotta love it.

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 I didn't quite go that far, but in some of the code
I wrote to directly 
access the disk controller under MS-DOS, I had comments that insulted 
Intel peripheral chips (which always seem to do the Wrong Thing) and the 
PC hardware design...
-tony  
How could you not insult Intel? They put themselves in a collaborative effort with
Microsh~t didn't they? LOL

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 So end-users aren't the *only* ones swearing at
Windows?  That's
refreshing to know...  :-o  
Of course we aren't... anyone who designs software that is meant to be absolute sh~t
has got to be allowed to vent once in a while.

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 Bad show when it's the programmers cursing at it,
though, huh?  
Naw... just shows how bad MicroSh~t has really gotten. BTW just so ya'lls know... the
guy who wrote windows.h needs to jump off the empire state building. That is about the
worst piece of programming I've ever had the misfortune to lay eyes on. What's
really pathetic... is that my attempt a few years ago a disassembling the windows
software... the code it threw out was actually better then the code I saw in the windows
leaked source. It was User32.dll incase you wanted to know. It's pretty bad when a
computer spits out better code then what the programmer made in the first place.
Lyos Gemini Norezel

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