I used to work at Microsoft as a tester for Windows NT 5 (pre Windows 2000). I had read the "required reading" of "Showstopper" and was curious to see Cutler's code. I found his assembly code for NT spinlocks and it was highly commented and very elegant.
When I was at school at the University of Washington, one my profs worked with Cutler at DEC. He said Cutler would print out his code into two piles: code and tests. My prof said the test code pile was 3x taller than the shipping code. Cutler is a huge stickler for testing your own damn code!;)
Dave Cutler (Score:2)
When I was at school at the University of Washington, one my profs worked with Cutler at DEC. He said Cutler would print out his code into two piles: code and tests. My prof said the test code pile was 3x taller than the shipping code. Cutler is a huge stickler for testing your own damn code!