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Just for a bit of fun... writing unmaintanable code

Tue, Oct 8 2013 1:01 AM	Permanent Link
Adam H.	Came across this website today, which gave me a bit of a laugh. https://www.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html I particularly like the one about using extended ascii characters as variable names, although I do hope I never have to follow up on any of this blokes coding.
Tue, Oct 8 2013 3:25 AM	Permanent Link
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate	Adam I came across it ages ago - and loved it. I think a lot of programmers are at least partially following his methods using i for loop control variable for instance. Roy Lambert
Wed, Oct 16 2013 3:45 PM	Permanent Link
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com	Adam, << Came across this website today, which gave me a bit of a laugh. >> Well, it's nice to know that I'm not doing any of the stuff mentioned in my code......... Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com
Thu, Oct 17 2013 5:47 PM	Permanent Link
Adam H.	> Well, it's nice to know that I'm not doing any of the stuff mentioned in > my code......... Maybe so Tim, but you don't need to. When I open up one of your pas files, a lot of it looks like a different language - and shows me just how little I know.
Fri, Oct 18 2013 3:06 AM	Permanent Link
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate	Adam >Maybe so Tim, but you don't need to. When I open up one of your pas >files, a lot of it looks like a different language - and shows me just >how little I know. The main reason (apart from money) why I never bought the source is that I have enough trouble working on my own code! Roy