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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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    Joe Woodbury
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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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      :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

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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

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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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            • T Todd Smith

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

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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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                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

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                            Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                            Senior Developer with 3 years experience and contract rates that are less than full-time w/ benefits compensation but that is just me.

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

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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

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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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                                • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                                  Throws, as in the Java notation :thumbsdown:

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                                  Vikram A Punathambekar
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                                  Really? I loved checked exceptions when I was programming in Java. I have the backing of at least one more highly-respected CPian. :)

                                  Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

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                                    Rajesh R Subramanian
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                                    Sleep(1000); X|

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                                    • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                                      Quite true.

                                      Mark Wallace wrote:

                                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

                                      EVERY time I read your signature, I cringe :shudder: It is funny though :)

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                                      Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

                                      EVERY time I read your signature, I cringe :shudder:

                                      These days, I have a hard time cutting bread without cringing.

                                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                        Kr0d
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                                        COM and Interop

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                                        • T Todd Smith

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                                          JasonPSage
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                                          like the word gay has lost it's original meaning - a shame it is... so to is the word "net" ... now when I hear "net" or "dot net" I shrudder

                                          Know way too many languages... master of none!

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