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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (20240)	4/11/1999 9:27:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 74651

Off topic: Millions of lines of code I have gone back into programs I have written myself and gotten lost. I'm sure glad I'm not the only one who's surprised that the code which was SO CLEAR when written doesn't make sense five years later, even though I wrote it myself, in spite of consistent style and prodigious commenting. Imagine what it would be like to look at Windows code, not ever seeing it before, and not having anyone around who has worked on it, and not being trained in the MSFT coding style. Also, you can bet if MSFT were forced to release the code, they'd remove the comments. (I would!) Kinda reminds me of the Cold War days when Soviets guarded their secrets under heavy security and U.S. stuff was made public -- secure in the fact that any enemy needed to sift through a million tons of documents to find what they wanted. Happy investing, PW.