It's late, I'm tired and grouchy and I can't figure out a way to do this!

[Mark Wieder]

Scott-

Thursday, April 6, 2006, 10:34:49 PM, you wrote:

> I love this subject line.  It reminds me of my days with Datachecker DTS
> when we did a forty eight hour (nodoze equipped) programming bender
> and would write comments in the code (Clipper back then) that read
> like" "This works, as fast as I can bleeding make out, if you don't like
> it shove ti 'cos it's late, I'm tired and I've drunk to much turps".
> ;-)

Have to be careful with that stuff. Back in the day when I was writing
code for an Apple II package I had some comments in my code about
having to deal with special-case routines for the @#$^% Apple //c
modem. Somewhere along the line we got a call from a customer whose
14-year-old kid had managed to crash the program and there on the
screen were my comments. Yes, the code was compiled C - my guess was
that somehow in allocating a 4k buffer for incoming text the compiler
just grabbed a 4k chunk of memory and stuck it as a block into the
program. And it just happened to be the chunk with my //c comments...

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net