[Coco] Bill Gates and CoCo BASIC assembly book

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 08 November 2012 20:58:42 Arthur Flexser did opine:

> I recall hearing through the grapevine many years ago that someone
> from Microsoft commented to the Spectral Associates people who put
> together the Unravelled series that the Unravelled disassembly was way
> better commented than the original Microsoft source code.  Seems very
> plausible to me.
> 
> Art

Chuckle.  Now that I have no problem believing, Art.  With comments, they 
might have known better what it was that they were doing.  I swear, their 
theory was that the better it was obfuscated, the longer it might last 
before some talented coder that didn't work for M$ figured out what was 
going on.  The usual back-stabbing mentality at M$, job security is when 
only one person has that code in their head.

Cheers, Gene
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