Reader's Comments

A certain "Top Secret" government project resulted in software that contained both "unprofessional" comments and "unprofessional" variable names. This was fine for many years. Then one day someone decided the code should be made unclassified. After months of going through the declassification procedure, the request to declassify was ultimately rejected. Why? Because the code contained "dirty words" and therefore would be an embarrassment to our government. Hence, to this day, the software with the dirty words remains "Top Secret."

-- Ted Knupke, March 21, 2008