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  • R Rob Graham

    Next you'll be wanting to drop the semicolon and case sensitivity.

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    Ian Shlasko
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    Drop the semi-colon? And be forced _ to resort to VB's _ horrible style of _ line continuations!?!? No thanks. Though the case sensitivity... I wouldn't have to deal with code where people name the private variables the same as the exposed properties, with just case differences... Or better yet, gems like:

    int num = Num + NUM;

    Thankfully, I've never actually seen a line that bad, but imagine a program written like that... There's something you can't do in VB.

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    • T TommyTomToms

      "Brain F$%k" is pretty foul [^]

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      Dan Neely
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      BF doesn't hold a candle to Malbolge[^] for horror. "Malbolge was so difficult to understand when it arrived that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear. The program was not even written by a human being: it was generated by a beam search algorithm designed by Andrew Cooke and implemented in Lisp." "it took many years before the first non-terminating one was introduced. A correct 99 Bottles of Beer program, which deals with non-trivial loops and conditions, was not announced for eight years; the first correct one was by Hisashi Iizawa in 2007." (this isn't talking about adding a language feature; this is just figuring out how to do it in the existing malbolge language.)

      The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.

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      • T Todd Smith

        What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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        PIEBALDconsult
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        Extension Method.

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        • P PIEBALDconsult

          No! The only time I've wanted something like that was when trying to copy values from one instance(?) to another A.X = B.X and with only saves typing one of the names, I'd want to save both with ( A , B ) X = X (or something)

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          Pete OHanlon
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          There are times that I'd like

          with (MyClass myClass = new myClass())
          {
          .Value = 10;
          .ComputeValues(22);
          with (.Nodes)
          {
          .InsertItem(10, 20);
          }
          }

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            There are times that I'd like

            with (MyClass myClass = new myClass())
            {
            .Value = 10;
            .ComputeValues(22);
            with (.Nodes)
            {
            .InsertItem(10, 20);
            }
            }

            "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

            As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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            Giorgi Dalakishvili
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            You can do it with object initializers can't you?

            Giorgi Dalakishvili #region signature My Articles Asynchronous Registry Notification Using Strongly-typed WMI Classes in .NET [^] My blog #endregion

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            • T Todd Smith

              What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

              Todd Smith

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              Joe Woodbury
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              COM

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              • D Dan Neely

                BF doesn't hold a candle to Malbolge[^] for horror. "Malbolge was so difficult to understand when it arrived that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear. The program was not even written by a human being: it was generated by a beam search algorithm designed by Andrew Cooke and implemented in Lisp." "it took many years before the first non-terminating one was introduced. A correct 99 Bottles of Beer program, which deals with non-trivial loops and conditions, was not announced for eight years; the first correct one was by Hisashi Iizawa in 2007." (this isn't talking about adding a language feature; this is just figuring out how to do it in the existing malbolge language.)

                The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.

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                TommyTomToms
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                :omg: Thanks for the info. I rather be flippin burgers at Macdonald than code in that abomination. Thank god for C# :-D

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                • T Todd Smith

                  What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

                  Todd Smith

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                  Miszou
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                  option explicit option base 1 on error resume next #define (Macro with parameters, for super-awesome side-effects!)

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                  • T Todd Smith

                    What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

                    Todd Smith

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                    Lost User
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                    Scope creep.

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                    • G Giorgi Dalakishvili

                      You can do it with object initializers can't you?

                      Giorgi Dalakishvili #region signature My Articles Asynchronous Registry Notification Using Strongly-typed WMI Classes in .NET [^] My blog #endregion

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                      Pete OHanlon
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                      Parts of it - you can't do method invocation with it.

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                      As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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                      • T Todd Smith

                        What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

                        Todd Smith

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                        Nougat H
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                        something something {

                        more of that something

                        }

                        I know some like this kind of brace style but personally I can't stand it at all. It goes so far that I tend to reformat a piece of code with this brace style before reading it :-D.

                        ____________________________ I didn't know what to put in here.

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                        • T Todd Smith

                          What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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                          Chris Maunder
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                          I mean - it's a pretty awful thing to wish upon a developer...

                          cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                          • T Todd Smith

                            What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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                            Robert Surtees
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                            SIGSEGV

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                            • C Chris Maunder

                              I mean - it's a pretty awful thing to wish upon a developer...

                              cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                              Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                              So I guess at CP does not ask programmers to write documents. Are you hiring? :)

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                              • T Todd Smith

                                What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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                                Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                                Judging by CP Posts: I will say is W*F where * = P, C, W

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                                • T Todd Smith

                                  What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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                                  Michael Dunn
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                                  "solution" (which is now a programming term thanks to VS)

                                  --Mike-- Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam

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                                  • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                                    So I guess at CP does not ask programmers to write documents. Are you hiring? :)

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                                    Chris Maunder
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                                    The point is that I'm evil.

                                    cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                                    • T Todd Smith

                                      What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

                                      Todd Smith

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                                      Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                                      • T Todd Smith

                                        What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

                                        Todd Smith

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                                        Philip Laureano
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                                        public void InSpace()
                                        {
                                        try
                                        {
                                        // Scream...
                                        you.Scream();
                                        }
                                        catch(Exception ex)
                                        {
                                        // No one can hear you...
                                        }
                                        }

                                        Do you know...LinFu?

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                                        • T Todd Smith

                                          What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

                                          Todd Smith

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                                          Steve Ungstad
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                                          1. Any code that uses disk files for temporary variable storage. It means speed is throttled by disk IO, which makes delayed write required, which threatens the entire system file system. 2. Yes: "Option base 1" is such a bad idea. 3. Any do-nothing wait loop without an abort mechanism: the HP/RMB BASIC "WAIT {seconds}" would stop the whole machine, including the display and IO while it did nothing. 4. Any compiler that allows uninitialized variables. Random values cause unpredictable behavior/crashes. 5. Any (real time/ ISR) code that will stack overflow if the CPU is too slow. ...etc

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