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    I had written some code many years ago (VAX Basic I think) and had asked a student programmer to tidy it up and annotate it. He came back a few hours later and said he was finished. I took a look and he had rearranged all the lines of code in alphabetical order ....

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      I had written some code many years ago (VAX Basic I think) and had asked a student programmer to tidy it up and annotate it. He came back a few hours later and said he was finished. I took a look and he had rearranged all the lines of code in alphabetical order ....

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      Dr Walt Fair PE
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      Ouch! That sounds worse than dropping a old box of punch cards ...

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      Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

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        I had written some code many years ago (VAX Basic I think) and had asked a student programmer to tidy it up and annotate it. He came back a few hours later and said he was finished. I took a look and he had rearranged all the lines of code in alphabetical order ....

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        Dan Mos
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        Look at the bright side. Now you have an alphabeticaly ordered list of bugs. :)

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        • L Lost User

          I had written some code many years ago (VAX Basic I think) and had asked a student programmer to tidy it up and annotate it. He came back a few hours later and said he was finished. I took a look and he had rearranged all the lines of code in alphabetical order ....

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          If they had line numbers, that might not be so bad.

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            I had written some code many years ago (VAX Basic I think) and had asked a student programmer to tidy it up and annotate it. He came back a few hours later and said he was finished. I took a look and he had rearranged all the lines of code in alphabetical order ....

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            elchupathingy
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            If I wanted to mess with my teacher that would be the way to do it...but I personally drew ASCII art with my source to mess with them :D

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            • L Lost User

              I had written some code many years ago (VAX Basic I think) and had asked a student programmer to tidy it up and annotate it. He came back a few hours later and said he was finished. I took a look and he had rearranged all the lines of code in alphabetical order ....

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              Yusuf
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              Did he sort it by hand or fed the code to some elegant sorting algorithm he invented

              Yusuf May I help you?

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                Did he sort it by hand or fed the code to some elegant sorting algorithm he invented

                Yusuf May I help you?

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                Are you kidding? :rolleyes: He probably didn't know the meaning of the word invented and certainly didn't know what an algorithm was.

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                • L Lost User

                  I had written some code many years ago (VAX Basic I think) and had asked a student programmer to tidy it up and annotate it. He came back a few hours later and said he was finished. I took a look and he had rearranged all the lines of code in alphabetical order ....

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                  imagiro
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                  '-?Ibbdddeeeehiillnooooopssttuuuvwwy oops, sorry, I mean: I don't beleive you - who would be so stupid?

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                  • L Lost User

                    I had written some code many years ago (VAX Basic I think) and had asked a student programmer to tidy it up and annotate it. He came back a few hours later and said he was finished. I took a look and he had rearranged all the lines of code in alphabetical order ....

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                    Stephen Hewitt
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                    Impressive. I'm not sure if he'll make a good computer programmer but he sure as hell would make a good computer.

                    Steve

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                      Impressive. I'm not sure if he'll make a good computer programmer but he sure as hell would make a good computer.

                      Steve

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                      Kunal Chowdhury IN
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                      He may be the best bugger of the world ;)

                      Don't forget to Click on [Vote] and [Good Answer] on the posts that helped you.


                      Regards - Kunal Chowdhury | Software Developer | Chennai | India | My Blog | My Tweets | Silverlight Tutorial

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