Why? Why?!! WHY!!!!
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I've been rewriting a system that was originally written in VBScript. Yes, that's 5000+ lines of VBScript with no white space, and no comments. That alone has had me crying for weeks/months, but this pushed me over the edge: At one point in the application we generate documents, to do so we pass a piece of XML to a third party utility that does a Word Merge (or whatever kids are calling it these days). Rather than pass each piece of data as a separate element they are doing some of the formatting in the VBScript. Instead of passing John Smith 1/1/1970 They are passing: John Smith {they insert a vbtab} 1/1/1970 I can't change the document template, so for now I have to reproduce this horrible code in .Net. I'm going to spend a few hours in the shower tonight crying and trying to scrub off that dirty feeling...
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I've been rewriting a system that was originally written in VBScript. Yes, that's 5000+ lines of VBScript with no white space, and no comments. That alone has had me crying for weeks/months, but this pushed me over the edge: At one point in the application we generate documents, to do so we pass a piece of XML to a third party utility that does a Word Merge (or whatever kids are calling it these days). Rather than pass each piece of data as a separate element they are doing some of the formatting in the VBScript. Instead of passing John Smith 1/1/1970 They are passing: John Smith {they insert a vbtab} 1/1/1970 I can't change the document template, so for now I have to reproduce this horrible code in .Net. I'm going to spend a few hours in the shower tonight crying and trying to scrub off that dirty feeling...
Ouch! I Hate having a dependency system that takes data in a certain way. You have to continue using the "bad" code!
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I've been rewriting a system that was originally written in VBScript. Yes, that's 5000+ lines of VBScript with no white space, and no comments. That alone has had me crying for weeks/months, but this pushed me over the edge: At one point in the application we generate documents, to do so we pass a piece of XML to a third party utility that does a Word Merge (or whatever kids are calling it these days). Rather than pass each piece of data as a separate element they are doing some of the formatting in the VBScript. Instead of passing John Smith 1/1/1970 They are passing: John Smith {they insert a vbtab} 1/1/1970 I can't change the document template, so for now I have to reproduce this horrible code in .Net. I'm going to spend a few hours in the shower tonight crying and trying to scrub off that dirty feeling...
Find out who wrote the VBScript and let him clean your house!
This statement is false.
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I've been rewriting a system that was originally written in VBScript. Yes, that's 5000+ lines of VBScript with no white space, and no comments. That alone has had me crying for weeks/months, but this pushed me over the edge: At one point in the application we generate documents, to do so we pass a piece of XML to a third party utility that does a Word Merge (or whatever kids are calling it these days). Rather than pass each piece of data as a separate element they are doing some of the formatting in the VBScript. Instead of passing John Smith 1/1/1970 They are passing: John Smith {they insert a vbtab} 1/1/1970 I can't change the document template, so for now I have to reproduce this horrible code in .Net. I'm going to spend a few hours in the shower tonight crying and trying to scrub off that dirty feeling...
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Is there any other kind of job?
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Do you work for nothing? It is assumed that the majority of us work for a living and get paid for doing the work. This codeing justly deserves to be written up in the horrors forum.