C# confessions - Oh man I would be embarassed - if it wasn't so funny.
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Embarassed? What for? You will always find some interesting things when taking a close look at your older code. It simply means you have made some progress since then.
Thanks, I think embarrassed because I have been coding for twenty years and I did not think I still wrote code like this. You are right though , what is important is progress, we all have to start somewhere.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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Thanks, I think embarrassed because I have been coding for twenty years and I did not think I still wrote code like this. You are right though , what is important is progress, we all have to start somewhere.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
What shall I say? The little program I work on right now is a top candidate for this effect. The boss wanted a quick and dirty solution which will have to do until we come up with a better one. Along the way several things did not worke well and sometimes I had to take a step back and try something else. The code is full of quick and dirty code to try out different approaches and also some remains of previous experiments. The whole structure and design has suffered from this tinkering. Now I'm cleaning it up a little, but still there will remain a lot to be improved. In a few weeks I will probaly plan the real solution and take this as a prototype. No doubt there will be many things which can be solved in a less error prone and better designed fashion. But as I wrote, this little project has to be working quickly. In a few weeks it will have served its purpose and the encountered issues will help when planing the real solution. Quick and dirty is not always a bad thing. You just have to take it for what it's worth.
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What shall I say? The little program I work on right now is a top candidate for this effect. The boss wanted a quick and dirty solution which will have to do until we come up with a better one. Along the way several things did not worke well and sometimes I had to take a step back and try something else. The code is full of quick and dirty code to try out different approaches and also some remains of previous experiments. The whole structure and design has suffered from this tinkering. Now I'm cleaning it up a little, but still there will remain a lot to be improved. In a few weeks I will probaly plan the real solution and take this as a prototype. No doubt there will be many things which can be solved in a less error prone and better designed fashion. But as I wrote, this little project has to be working quickly. In a few weeks it will have served its purpose and the encountered issues will help when planing the real solution. Quick and dirty is not always a bad thing. You just have to take it for what it's worth.
CDP1802 wrote:
Quick and dirty is not always a bad thing
Definitely. But then you have to discard it and build the real one, exploiting acquired knowledge. :)
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke -
CDP1802 wrote:
Quick and dirty is not always a bad thing
Definitely. But then you have to discard it and build the real one, exploiting acquired knowledge. :)
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke -
Usually I do that by redesigning the whole thing as a reusable module where it makes sense. In future projects I then can rely on code which has already proven it's worth.
Very good. :)
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke -
Very good. :)
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain ClarkeLuckily I have a boss who gives me time to do such things. A while ago he asked me what he should have printed on my business cards. I said 'Wizard'. I read books which nobody else understand. Then I do something which nobody understands. After that the computer does something which nobody understands. When asked I say things about the results which nobody understands. But everybody expects miracles from me on a regular basis. Looks to me like the classical definition of a wizard.
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Just tidying up some code I wrote when I started learning C#(some four months ago). I found the following two horrors:
itemDups += 0; goto Skip;So I thought I better fess up and hang my head in shame. Oh the shame... :sigh: :laugh:
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
Hehe, you should see the wonders I've coded on my first coding job. And I was paid for that. No one is immune from writing bad\weird code, but some folk just insist they are right, and the rest of us gather here :) I wonder how nobody hasn't put some of my early gems here.
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Hehe, you should see the wonders I've coded on my first coding job. And I was paid for that. No one is immune from writing bad\weird code, but some folk just insist they are right, and the rest of us gather here :) I wonder how nobody hasn't put some of my early gems here.
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Luckily I have a boss who gives me time to do such things. A while ago he asked me what he should have printed on my business cards. I said 'Wizard'. I read books which nobody else understand. Then I do something which nobody understands. After that the computer does something which nobody understands. When asked I say things about the results which nobody understands. But everybody expects miracles from me on a regular basis. Looks to me like the classical definition of a wizard.
Your last sentence is definitely signature material! :-D
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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Just tidying up some code I wrote when I started learning C#(some four months ago). I found the following two horrors:
itemDups += 0; goto Skip;So I thought I better fess up and hang my head in shame. Oh the shame... :sigh: :laugh:
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
Everyone pontificates about lofty and complicated concepts such as declarative programming, boxing, garbage collection, IDL, delegates, generics, etc. But I like your bold use of some very simple and perfectly legal constructs. Too bad the VisStudio compiler abhors this common contruct: itemDups /= 0; :omg:
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Everyone pontificates about lofty and complicated concepts such as declarative programming, boxing, garbage collection, IDL, delegates, generics, etc. But I like your bold use of some very simple and perfectly legal constructs. Too bad the VisStudio compiler abhors this common contruct: itemDups /= 0; :omg:
rokhead wrote:
itemDups /= 0
Yeah, my code won't even compile with this. Talk about VS being Stooooooopid. Maybe I will post a question on the C# forum saying: Plz Help Why does this code not work itemDups /= 0 You write code for me, now, urgent :laugh:
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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Your last sentence is definitely signature material! :-D
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Wait until I post a picture of my new outfit. :) How about a dark robe, covered with mystic symbols like the hex codes from 00 to FF. A matching pointy hat and some kind of staff or wand. Growing the obligatory beard my take a while :) Edit: Just for fun, I just took it as my signature
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