Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!newbery From: newbery@vuwcomp.UUCP (Michael Newbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Appropriate Language in Programming (Was: Re: System Error 33) Message-ID: <12917@vuwcomp.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 18:47:07 EDT Article-I.D.: vuwcomp.12917 Posted: Sun Jul 19 18:47:07 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 03:09:42 EDT References:<3519@ecsvax.UUCP> <3785@osu-eddie.UUCP> <3445@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: newbery@vuwcomp.UUCP (Michael Newbery) Organization: Computing Serv. Ctr, Victoria Uni., Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 23 In article <3445@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> graifer@net1.UUCP (Dan Graifer) writes: >In article <3785@osu-eddie.UUCP> elwell%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton Elwell) writes: >>In article <3519@ecsvax.UUCP> wmcb@ecsvax.UUCP (William C. Bauldry) writes: >>>>Stump the Stars: what dis the "DS" in "DSErrCode" originally stand for? [...] >Apple isn't the only place where code has to be "cleaned up" for final >release. I recall working with the Burroughs large system MCP (a multi- I belive that when Burrogues :-) decided to release the MCP source to its customers some lucky employees got the job of rendering the source code fit for delicate sensibilities. Somewhere I have a (yellowing) piece of paper describing the Fork routine in some detail, including the forked queue, where tasks were marked forked up, etc etc.. This was not the only area that had to be Bowdlerised either. Incidentally, Burrogues also used (uses) DS, being the ABORT command to kill tasks. DS allegedly stood for Deep Six. A comment described the mainly two letter commands used from the operators console as "monosyllabic gutteral". I could go on... -- Michael Newbery ACSnet: newbery@vuwcomp.nz UUCP: newbery@vuwcomp Une boule qui roule tue les poules. (Landslides kill chickens)