Windows 2000 Comment Commentary
February 16th, 2004
“Comments like ‘UGLY TERRIBLE HACK’ tend to indicate good code rather
than bad: in bad code ugly terrible hacks are considered par for the
course. It would therefore be both hypocritical and meaningless to go
through the comments looking for embarrassments. But also fun, so let’s
go.” Kuro5hin takes a ride through
the comments in the source code to Windows 2000, which reveal that
Microsoft is full of good software engineers burdened beyond all reason
with evil backward-compatibility requirements. (Hey, we’re not so
different, you and I!)