[OT] feature backlash

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Sat Apr 3 05:24:57 EST 2004


Richard-

Sometime in the mid-80s I developed an Apple II modem communications
program for a small software house. Once the Apple //c came out I had
to rework all the lowest-level routines for the new hardware. My
source code was sprinkled with comments about needing to "take care of
the f**king //c". This is source code, right? Never gets delivered to
the end user.

Imagine our surprise when a customer called in one day and complained
that his 14-year-old son had crashed the program and there in the
middle of his screen was a message about "the f**king //c". We
scratched our collective heads and finally came up with a plausible
explanation: I had allocated a 1k buffer for text storage, and the
compiler apparently had just grabbed whatever was in memory at the
time in the place where it wanted its buffer. Source code, comments,
and all.

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net



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