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Bill Gates and his opinion of his software

Limeoutsider

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If you are using Windows right now, there is a good chance that there is profanity in your source code. Of course it isn't available to you to see however it probably is there within the whopping 13.5-28 million lines of code. Microsoft and others are unsure who put the profanity in the code -- whether it was Microsoft developers or just the hackers having fun. The code was written mainly in C++, C, and assembler.
 
Since They're Not Sure...

Why did you title this thread Bill Gates and his opinion of his software?

Tron
 
Limeoutsider said:
If you are using Windows right now, there is a good chance that there is profanity in your source code.

Of course, that doesn't begin to compare with the billions of words of profanity uttered by the users of Windows. 😀 😛
 
As a spoilsport and programmer, I have to regretfully inform you that the profanities in questions are not hidden in your contribution of MS Windows. They are lines of commentary attached to the source code. Some examples can be found <a href="http://mjt.nysv.org/w2k_greps/">here</a>. These kinds of commentary are not incorporated into the actual program modules - they are "lost in translation" when the compiler parses the source.

It is generally considered very bad form to include profanities into source commentaries because of situations like this one - you never know who might get a hold of your code, and you can never be sure you have removed all of your jests, quibs, and frustrated rants. Still, programmers are people, too, and I've made a few sardonic comments when I had to debug other people's coding.

The current interest in the profanities is, however, a mystery to me. The more pressing concern should be that by leaking MS Windows source code, even in parts, the system's security could be even more compromised than it already is. A decompiled source code is far less useful to a hacker than an original. No matter what your opinion of Microsoft is, I'm sure that no one wants their system to be hijacked or damaged, so this leakage is not grounds for joy but a reason to shake your head and ask yourself "What were those idiots thinking?".
 
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