“Students of the Windows 2000 source found more than four thousand references to “hacks.” In one explosion of typographical attention-getting, a programmer inserted this warning into the code: *!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *IF YOU CHANGE TABS TO SPACES, YOU WILL BE KILLED!! *!!!!DOING SO FUCKS THE BUILD PROCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”