http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3485545.stm

Buried in the article is this:

"Fourthly, for Microsoft to have this code paraded in public
is hugely embarrassing. Not least because the code is littered
with profanity and might show that many Microsoft programmers do
not do a very good job.

"In the past independent programmers that have deconstructed other
Microsoft applications have been shocked at what they found within
the code. Rivals and critics will be able to see exactly how
Microsoft staff do their work."

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WARNING: Foul language ahead. Young children, women who are pregnant or
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You still with me? Okay, then. To be totally fair, Linux isn't that clean.
Allow me to illustrate, using Fedora Core:
$ cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
$ grep grep -R fuck .

../Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl:
If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.

../arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c:
#if 0 /* XXX No fucking way dude... */

../arch/mips/kernel/irixioctl.c:
* irixioctl.c: A fucking mess...

../arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-setup.c:
/* Init the INDY HPC I/O controller. Need to call this before
* fucking with the memory controller because it needs to know the
* boardID and whether this is a Guiness or a FullHouse machine.

../arch/ppc/kernel/ppc405_pci.c:
/* We prevent us from seeing ourselves to avoid having
* the kernel try to remap our BAR #1 and fuck up bus
* master from external PCI devices

../arch/sparc/kernel/process.c:
/* fuck me plenty */

../arch/sparc/kernel/sunos_ioctl.c:
/* Binary compatibility is good American knowhow fuckin' up. */

../arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:
/* Why the fuck did they have to change this? */

../drivers/char/drm/drmP.h:
extern int DRM(release_fuck)(struct inode *inode, struct file
*filp);

../drivers/ide/pci/cmd640.c:
* These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver
* to work on every motherboard design that uses this screwed chip seems
* bloody well impossible. However, we're still trying

../drivers/net/b44.c:
/* ??? What the fuck is the purpose of the interrupt mask

../drivers/net/sunhme.c:
/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface
* like this. Good job guys...

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Mark Allen Adams, Jr. wrote:

|> "Fourthly, for Microsoft to have this code paraded in public
|> is hugely embarrassing. Not least because the code is littered
|> with profanity and might show that many Microsoft programmers do
|> not do a very good job.
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| WARNING: Foul language ahead. Young children, women who are pregnant or
| nursing, and anyone with a heart condition should discontinue reading
here.
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| You still with me? Okay, then. To be totally fair, Linux isn't that
clean.
| Allow me to illustrate, using Fedora Core:
| $ cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
| $ grep grep -R fuck .
|

| ./arch/sparc/kernel/sunos_ioctl.c:
| /* Binary compatibility is good American knowhow fuckin' up. */

LOL!

| ./arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:
| /* Why the fuck did they have to change this? */

Damn, these are the comments I hate, if the change was commented, then
there wouldnt be these

| ./drivers/ide/pci/cmd640.c:
| * These chips are basically fucked by design,

Microsoft makes chipsets?

| ./drivers/net/sunhme.c:
| /* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the
programming interface
| * like this. Good job guys...

Ooooohh, I think with the MS code leak, they may have a valid reason for
changing THIS particular comment


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Mark Allen Adams, Jr. wrote:


Try grep the linux source for arsehole :-)

Jan Knutar wrote:
Better yet, grep it for Finnish obscenities.

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Jan Knutar <shadowjksp@yahoo.se> writes:

And this after the big cleanup effort a while back. It used to be
*much* worse.

John wrote:

the comments except for the code that has no comments.

Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:

Considering that Torvalds' first language is actually Swedish and not
Finnish, the prospect is slim. Even slimmer considering most programmers
write everything in english.

Indeed, I found no common swedish nor finnish profanity in the Linux
sources.

The closest thing would be the numerous times the word 'satan' is used. This
is in some 68060 specific asm files, which emulate certain op codes not
present in 68060 cpu's, but present in older cpu's. 'satan' in that
context, I guess, short for "signed atan", a mathematical function.

satan(): computes the arctangent of a normalized number
satand(): computes the arctangent of a denormalized number
satanh(): computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent of a norm input
satanhd(): computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent of a denorm input

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Eugene <nospam@columbus.rr.com> espoused:
I've seen some fairly ripe variable names in my time...

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Jan Knutar wrote:


goddam reindeer eater

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Datagram from Paul Hovnanian P.E. incoming on netlink socket
<402D772E.6F0B4E72@Hovnanian.com>. Dumping datagram.
Like what? I counld't find a single one.

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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jan Knutar
<shadowjksp@yahoo.se>
wrote
on Sat, 14 Feb 2004 06:55:40 +0200
<cbm0g1-8rb.ln1@breadbin.mine.nu>:
More likely 'single precision', but yeah, here's proof that
Linux is work of the devil. :-) ;-) :-)

And of course 'chmod 0666' is the number of the beast, or at
least one usage thereof. (OK, so it's in octal instead
of decimal. Minor point...)

It's certainly going to bedevil Microsoft...that's for sure.

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The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.athghost7038suus.net> wrote:
Don't forget about those little daemons running on every linux box.

The> And of course 'chmod 0666' is the number of the beast, or at
The> least one usage thereof.

I use "a=rw" instead. Learn to use {agou}([=-+]{rwxgou})* and you can
forget those cryptic numbers.


The> (OK, so it's in octal instead of decimal. Minor point...)

Who told you the original 666 was not decimal?


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LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

It is octal.
each level of permission is 3 bits (r,w,x) 0-7, therefore, octal.

The> (OK, so it's in octal instead of decimal. Minor point...)

spike1> It is octal. each level of permission is 3 bits (r,w,x)
spike1> 0-7, therefore, octal.

I've got me wrong. I was asking why you assumed that *religious* 666
to be decimal?


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LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
I didn't
All I said was "don't forget all those daemons running on every linux box".
Besides, it was a joke. (A joke I actually saw a religious troll USE once in
his argument against linux and unix several years ago)

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, LEE Sau Dan
<danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
wrote
on 18 Feb 2004 22:10:28 +0100
<m3u11ojdq3.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>:
Heh...well, part of my problem is that I learned all this back
in the 80's; I don't think they had a=rw back then.

I'm also very good with figures. *evil grin*

Who says I was being *serious*? :-) But OK, as far as
I can tell the ancient Greek for '666' (base 10) had an
alternate meaning; back then each digit place had 9 letter
sets, possibly with accents. I don't know the letters but
let's assume for the sake of this argument that they used
a-i for 1-9, j-r for 10-90, s-z and * for 100-900. 666 in
this scheme would be represented "xpf". As luck has it,
"xpf" is almost pronounceable... :-)

For numbers such as 100, one only saw 's'; 105 would be 'se';
150 would be 'so'. I don't remember what they did for zero.

For 1000 and over ticks got involved; 123,456,789 might have
been represented skc"vnf'yqi. 100,000,000 might have been
represented s".

I'd have to dig to see what the actual Greek word was, but
it might have been a reference to Emperor Nero of "fiddling
during burning" fame, according to one post I've read.
Of course I don't know ancient Greek (I might know the letters,
having some training in mathematics :-) ).

It might have been a pithy expletive.

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