Who cares about his/her coding style.
My personal suspicion in this area is that Satoshi was never (or not recently) a full-time programmer, but he was pretty familiar with computer science (maybe a student or academic?), and he'd read some comprehensive C++ book just before starting on Bitcoin, so he made full and correct usage of C++ features in a slightly messy way.
Agree with you. It seems that Satoshi's code was pretty sloppy. Moreover, obviously he was a Windows guy.Readme.txt from Bitcoin 0.01 ALPHA:
Code:
Operating Systems
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Windows NT/2000/XP (and probably Vista)
Vista hasn't been tested yet. All the libraries used are cross-platform, so
there's nothing preventing future Linux and Mac builds.
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Windows NT/2000/XP (and probably Vista)
Vista hasn't been tested yet. All the libraries used are cross-platform, so
there's nothing preventing future Linux and Mac builds.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if Satoshi Nakamoto was a full-time programmer or not. Although there were some bugs, the software worked fine.
OP is not saying it matters or that it forms an issue in any way, just trying to find out more.
And if we shouldn't discuss things that don't matter we can scrap more than half of the threads on this board.
