Re: Insults in the kernel-sources

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, alan wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, walt wrote:
>
> > alan wrote:
> >
> > > Turns out the Microsoft code has just as much profanity, if not more, than
> > > the Linux kernel source.  (Of course, they have more to swear about...)
> >
> > Not that I doubt you for one second -- but I'd like to examine the M$ source
> > code for myself if you don't mind.  Only for the purpose of verifying your
> > somewhat unusual claim, naturally.
> >
> > Oh, BTW, where can I find their source code...
>
> The M$ swearwords was widely reported by the press after the source code
> leakage.
>
> You might still be able to find it on one of the file sharing networks.
>

Yes. I recall is was something like:

10 IF MID$(LEFT$(A$,3), B$) THEN GOTO 20 ELSE GOTO 10
20 GOTO 100
100 WHILE((SCREW$, 4Q2), CUSTOMER$) GOTO BANK
200 GOTO 10

All written in MBASIC.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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