[news] Microsoft fixes 'big boobs' coding gaffe

[unixman_again]

BBC News - Microsoft fixes 'big boobs' coding gaffe

[chazzy2501]

How anyone could be offended by this or even be bothered to articulate and argument befuddles me.

[X-13]

Commenting on the gaffe, developer Matthew Garrett noted that the first version of the Microsoft code used a similar string of 0x0B00B135 - a form of letters that roughly translates to "boobies".

 

"Puerile sniggering at breasts contributes to the continuing impression that software development is a boys' club where girls aren't welcome," he wrote.

 

His comments, and those on the Linux mailing list, have started a huge debate about whether use of the string was sexist and how male developers should conduct themselves.

 

 

I only have two words to say to this man.

 

One of them is "off". The other rhymes with "duck".

[shenley]

I think we call this hexspeak. When I used to work with AIX, we would see 0xdeadbeef quite often if you were running the debugger. It was an uninitialized frame. I think 0xdeaddead was seen sometimes in the NT4 kernel.

[twin--turbo]

Strange, I am usually aware of the Microsoft coding news stories but this time i have failed to keep abreast of the situation.

 

Rob

[twin--turbo]

Oh and the pice of code they are refering to was buggy anyway, it caused a mammery leak.

 

Sorry

 

Getting my hat.

 

Rob