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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:43:52 -0500
From:      Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos <jorgeassembler1@outlook.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   =?utf-8?Q?Re:_The_source_code_of__*BSD_contains_the_comment__?= =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98Does_this_belong_here=3F=E2=80=99?=
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> On Apr 16, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

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>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:38:08 +0300, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote:
>> The source code of  *BSD contains the comment  =E2=80=98Does this belong h=
ere?=E2=80=99
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> Does the source code also contain an implicit or explicit
> answer to that question?
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> On the other hand:
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> The source code of "Word for Windows" made by the MICROS~1
> corporation contains the word 'fuck' three (!) times!
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> ./Opus/asm/wordgrep.asm:; BP  is used as always, the other registers are f=
ree to fuck with.
> ./Opus/asm/wordgrep.asm:        je      another_fucking_out_of_range_jump
> ./Opus/asm/wordgrep.asm:another_fucking_out_of_range_jump:
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> What kind of business professionalism does _that_ inspire? ;-)
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> Imagine what comments you could find in current programs
> made by MICROS~1 when... yes, _if_ you could ever get the
> source code from them. :-)
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> Joke aside. I would not treat comments that seriously.
> It's much more important that source code is present and
> of high quality. Developers are real humans. =46rom time
> to time, they do stupid things, and one of the least
> important stupid things is leaving such a comment in the
> source code. Just don't put too much emphasize in it.
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>=20
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> By the way, I've checked my local FreeBSD v8 source tree
> and didn't find the comment you've mentioned. Can you tell
> _where_ (which particular OS, version, file, line) I can
> find it?
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> --=20
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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It's in the LINUX source code, not the BSD source. The original sender has v=
ery poor English skills.

--Matt=



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