What was the most interesting, funny or silly Code you have ever read?
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This wasn't my code, it was from one of my friend's projects. I cannot remember what the actual class did, but most of the projects code files were naive (and buggy) implementations of classes in the framework. I did show him the documentation, and his reply was "Cool! How did you know this existed?". Me: :doh:
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
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PEBKAC :-\
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
I think it was more of an ID-Ten-T error. Either that or a
BrainNotFoundException. He has decided to become an English Major with Anthropology and History minors. :doh:I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
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if (this == null)
{
//WTF just happened?!?!!
Environment.Exit(-1);
}I cannot remember the exact code block, but it was something along those lines. And yes, somehow, that condition happened. And 'this' was the actual keyword, not some redefinition of it. I still don't know how that one happened.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
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Uhhhh... sure! :) Just kidding. The programmer at the time just probably forgot that they checked the same variable twice. Maybe it was supposed to be another variable. I have no clue what the intention was, but its still active in the program. I don't have the heart to comment it out because of how funny the goof is. :laugh:
int main (){
long variable = -1;long var24 = 24; unsigned long var26 = 26; if( variable < var24 && (variable > var26)){ printf("%ld, is a magic number, %lu, %ld, %ld", variable, variable, var24, var26); } return 0;}
I was just wondering if this could come up somewhere in the code and still be funny. -JD
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At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();
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I'm not sure, but I've always thought it would be funny to leave this in some code and see people's faces:
if(10 != 10){
abort();
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I've seen that in older Fortran programs on compilers for systems that didn't have comparison against constants in their assembly language. They saved zero in a particular location and all comparisons were done against that location. Occasionally, someone would unknowingly pass 0 into a routine in the parameter position where the value was changed by the routine. That is when zero stopped becoming zero and was something completely different. It read something like if ((0+1) .ne. 1) call abend
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This is going back many years, and from memory it went something like this:
- (bool)is_even(int value)
{
if (value == 0)
{
return true;
}
else if (value == 2)
{
return true;
}
else if (value == 4)
{
return true;
}
...
else if (value == 12)
{
return true;
}return false;}
And so it went to 12 and I guess for the context in which it was used it apparently was a high enough number. You could of course replace this method using a simple modulus operation. What's also funny is that I saw this code in a printout on the wall of an engineer, which had been there for a couple years. A short time after, another engineer, new to the group, found this method still existing in another part of the code base (apparently just copy-pasted from its original location). The code base was very large. Lesson learned is if you find bad code somewhere do a global search to insure it is not duplicated anywhere else.
Haha I am sure i have read this in a book or programming tutorial as an example for bad code.
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I think it was more of an ID-Ten-T error. Either that or a
BrainNotFoundException. He has decided to become an English Major with Anthropology and History minors. :doh:I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
:doh: well, can't say i haven't found such cases... there was a guy on my class who left to become a surgeon... I hope I never have to be operated by him :~
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
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in FORTH: Begin ... if ( swap ) ... until then The parentheses allow you to leave the compiler, so the swap changes the addresses on the stack so the straddled begin and if statements worked.
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That was my thoughts exactly. However, there are many other instances like the example I posted. The worse I have seen are many goto statements.
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Where 1=1 I mean that is obvious..
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At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();
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For me, it was a WinForms app written in VB.NET that was using hidden Textbox controls on the form as a Boolean variable!!! The whole app was full with checks for true/false against a Textbox.Text property instead of simply declaring a boolean variable.
X| That one just is.... blech. Was this... programmer (I use the term loosely here)... a new guy? Or someone who knew nothing about what they were working with (e.g. PEBKAC o ID-Ten-T)?
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
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At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();
Don't know if my most interesting/funny/silly but some of the last I found. Comments should help to better understand ... maybe!
if (anyBooleanValue == false)
{ // in case of true
...
}
else
{ // in case of false
...
}... return; // leave the methodTwice are better ...
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At the Company i am working in the Intellicence gave me These two methods. Microcernel.Create(). 1. PrintLabel() 2. PrintLable() Both methods contained the same oneliner. this._Label();
I once had to work on a package (in an 3G language/database called Dataflex if anyone remembers it) that contained the following remarkd
The following is Himalayan Mountain Climber code, and so is impenetrable to us mere mortals!
When I asked what this meant, I was told that it had been written by a contractor, whose hobby was indeed climbing in the Himalayas, who was known for using all sorts of undocumented tricks to provide very clever and efficient code that nobody else could understand.
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I'm not sure, but I've always thought it would be funny to leave this in some code and see people's faces:
if(10 != 10){
abort();
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That's specially useful when you need to constantly comment in and out some of the conditions to find the right records. Without that you'd have to worry to every time replace the AND for a WHERE and vice-versa.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
Fabio Franco wrote:
That's specially useful when you need to constantly comment in and out some of the conditions to find the right records.
Without that you'd have to worry to every time replace the AND for a WHERE and vice-versa.For that, I use
TRUE, e.g. in SQL:WHERE TRUE
AND X=Y
AND A=BYou can then comment in / out the real conditions without any worries about whether a leading AND is needed or not or even if any conditions remain. e.g.
WhereClause = "WHERE TRUE "
& ( test1wanted ? "AND X=Y " : "" )
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Fabio Franco wrote:
That's specially useful when you need to constantly comment in and out some of the conditions to find the right records.
Without that you'd have to worry to every time replace the AND for a WHERE and vice-versa.For that, I use
TRUE, e.g. in SQL:WHERE TRUE
AND X=Y
AND A=BYou can then comment in / out the real conditions without any worries about whether a leading AND is needed or not or even if any conditions remain. e.g.
WhereClause = "WHERE TRUE "
& ( test1wanted ? "AND X=Y " : "" )
& ( test2wanted ? "AND A=B " : "" );Same thing, except "1=1" is only three characters long :)
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Same thing, except "1=1" is only three characters long :)
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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No need to ;)
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia