4 ms·

I recall reading somewhere (can't find it for beans now) that the Windows kernel was a huge mess codewise since many of the original developers have moved on an

I recall reading somewhere (can't find it for beans now) that the Windows kernel was a huge mess codewise since many of the original developers have moved on and poor to nonexistent documentation was left, meaning that the modern employees had to basically reverse engineer a lot of the code. Take this with a grain of salt, of course.

ocdtrekkie 11y ago
This isn't super unusual for very old code.
mlvljr 11y ago
Here are some comments from the times of the source code leak: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795 I'd say, the user experience has improved since then overall (meaning the code quality, too, in one of the most practical senses).
- UK-AL 11y ago
  Somebody did an actual anaysis of that leak, and the code was considered high quality overall. You get dodgy comments in the Linux kernel to.
  - mlvljr 11y ago
    I never said the Windows source was considered bad :)
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
happycube 11y ago
There's been a rather effective cleanup effort a few years ago: http://windows-now.com/blogs/robert/mark-russinovich-explains-minwin-once-and-for-all.aspx http://windows-now.com/blogs/robert/mark-russinovich-explain...