On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I used to have read-only access to that codebase. The code is actually > pretty clean and maintainable (what I read). Microsoft does tend to use > gotos for error exits.
Good-oh. The Linux kernel does that too. :) "GOTO considered harmful" has a valid point, but it can be used correctly to make certain kinds of code a lot more readable and in fact make it easier to demonstrate correctness. > You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows CE.NET > source which is freely available. It's a fork. You can get a flavor of > it. If you try real hard, you can probably via a University take a look > at the source -- Microsoft is handing out read-access grudgingly. Work > within the system and you can accomplish that goal. But be very careful about doing that; you may well end up "tainted" if you sign source licence agreements, and writing free software thereafter could be difficult. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
