Celebrities in MSDN Documentation

I imagine the MS legal department frowns on the appearance of recognizable names in documentation. Nevertheless, there are a few out there. For instance, the documentation for IXmlSerializable.WriteXml contains a celebrity from Bedrock:

// Create a person object.
Person fred = new Person("Fred Flintstone");

Over in the Visual FoxPro world, we find a local Microsoft celebrity:

IF UPPER(userID) = 'BILLG' && only one user may add tables
   RETURN .T.
ENDIF
   RETURN .F.
ENDIF

Finally, perhaps someone had a particular GeorgeW in mind when describing sp_denylogin to aspiring DBAs:


EXEC sp_denylogin 'Corporate\GeorgeW'

If only it were that easy…

So, know of any others?

Print | posted @ Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:54 AM

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Gravatar # re: Celebrities in MSDN Documentation
by Sahil Malik at 10/3/2006 11:19 PM

LOL, someone in MS legal is getting yelled at right now!! :)
  
Gravatar # re: Celebrities in MSDN Documentation
by Eric J at 10/5/2006 1:40 AM

Not a name, but I always think Mike Blaszczak when I see "Hockey is best!" in the docs...
  
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