I'm not sure why they stripped -all- of the comments out of the code. Part of that seems a bit pointless. But it was probably a safety measure as much of the code contained quite a bit of personal information, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and also some "adult humour." I also recall that there was a Christmas tree that I created out of one part of the source code that other people contributed too, it looked like a Christmas tree and it actually compiled and executed, there was also a small perl script (just for fun) embedded within the C++ that if you used it would re-arrange the code but leave it execute in the exact same way. I also recall a running conversation between myself and two other programmers in the comments of one source module. Lots of team "in jokes" too.
Having worked on the original CTP it's nice to see how much of my original code made it into the second iteration. It's also embarassing looking at 6 year old code.
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I'm not sure why they stripped -all- of the comments out of the code. Part of that seems a bit pointless. But it was probably a safety measure as much of the code contained quite a bit of personal information, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and also some "adult humour." I also recall that there was a Christmas tree that I created out of one part of the source code that other people contributed too, it looked like a Christmas tree and it actually compiled and executed, there was also a small perl script (just for fun) embedded within the C++ that if you used it would re-arrange the code but leave it execute in the exact same way. I also recall a running conversation between myself and two other programmers in the comments of one source module. Lots of team "in jokes" too.
Having worked on the original CTP it's nice to see how much of my original code made it into the second iteration. It's also embarassing looking at 6 year old code.