Maybe we DO need professionals licensing

[dandy72]

rjmoses wrote:

It's scary that maybe this individual might now be developing code for a self-driving car.

If that's the sort of code it's running, then don't worry - that car won't be driving itself for too long. It'll probably drive itself into a phone pole at high speed before long. Intentionally.

[rjmoses]

If I was a car running that kind of code, I WOULD drive myself into a tree.

[OriginalGriff]

If you were a car running that kind of code, you'd miss!

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[RugbyLeague]

187 TIMES Achievement Unlocked

[rjmoses]

Not anymore (until I changed it.)

[rjmoses]

Good point!

[MarkTJohnson]

It's good to know someone else experienced my pain. But mine was way back in the mid 1990's with the Microsoft C 5.1 compiler. You'd think they would have fixed that since then.

[abmv]

for(try to drive) if tree brake if chimney fly if fire hydrant brake if human brake if cat go to did no see if bird try catch else throw error call horn

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[dandy72]

Good point.

[Mark_Wallace]

Nah. The whole thing is probably:

On error Resume Next

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

[David Crow]

I saw something akin to this once:

for (int x = 0; x < 5; x++)
{
if (x == 0)
; // do something
else if (x == 1)
; // do something
else if (x == 2)
; // do something
else if (x == 3)
; // do something
else if (x == 4)
; // do something
}

I went home early because it scared me.

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[Joe Woodbury]

rjmoses wrote:

.... 187 TIMES!!!

Who uses an odd number? At least use 192.

[Sander Rossel]

Who says this guy (or girl) doesn't have a Bachelor's (or Master's) degree in programming? It wouldn't be the first time I see a "licensed" programmer producing code like that :rolleyes: I once worked with someone who was certified and expensive and wrote a separate service that was so bad it negated future development. Like literally, we added some fields to the database, filled them with data, and half an hour later that service would set the fields to NULL again. Took me a while to find that one :laugh: You can imagine that wasn't the only WTF in that code base... Then there's this guy who was equally certified, full of himself, called me "a little man", and then made an unsolicited code change that broke production X| The reason he made the change is because I had wrote a function containing something like 30 lines of code (including white lines and curly braces), which he thought was bad practice. After he "refactored" it he took out the "usings" because ".NET handles that for you". He also somehow added an additional database call and discarded the results, which actually broke it. And then we had the fourth year application developer intern who literally couldn't declare a variable because "he forgot the syntax". Needless to say we failed him, but somehow he passed his next internship and a year after he couldn't declare a variable he was applying for a job at some big company :~ Don't speak to me about "professional licensing", people are bunglers and no amount of licensing can fix that X|

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[User 11783308]

I don't usually join in these discussions, nor am I claiming that this is the best way to accomplish the task. However, I see more of a problem with the compiler -- these are not really nested blocks. They are "else if" statements and not really different from a case statement in a switch except that you are using an expression instead of a constant. When I write them, the formatting shows that. Every "else if" is at the same level and there is no nesting. In C (and C++) you have "#elif", but for some godforsaken reason, you don't have "elif" in the language. This is a missing control structure and why the hell is there any kind of a fixed limit on parsing the language? I seriously doubt that, once parsed, that the control flow graph has any sort of limit, but limits like these are from 30 or 40 years ago. Inexcusable in today's world.

[Nelek]

Kind of mandatory[^]

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[decaffeinatedMonkey]

Lol! I'd prefer a bunch of GOTO statements in this predicament.

[Slow Eddie]

You speak the truth. University degrees, licensing and certifications don't guarantee competence. I think that any of us including all of the people in this post would be surprised at what another programmer would find to criticize and complain about in his or her code. Also, anyone that would get in a self-driving vehicle deserves to run into a tree, in my opinion. :rolleyes:

Hard work and common sense will overcome in every situation, every time.

[Daniel Wilianto]

187 nested code blocks? New Badge obtained!

[obermd]

In most cases, licensing/certification requirements are used to prevent new competition from entering a field.

[Sander Rossel]

Slow Eddie wrote:

all of the people in this post would be surprised at what another programmer would find to criticize and complain about in his or her code

I try to make a difference between "facts" and "preference". For example:

// My style
public void DoSomething(string input)
{
// Code...
}

// Someone else's style
public void do_something ( string input ) {

// Code...

}

My code is C# style, the other isn't. It's some sort of Java(Script)ish with some extra space. But it's still (more or less) the same code. I'd probably tell this person something about C# coding styles and I'd enforce some default coding style (at least to normalize the casing). When a team uses different coding styles it tends to mess up your source control (because of automatic styling, which makes it look like everyone is changing complete files even when just a single line was fixed), so it's still important, but not necessarily wrong. Then there's this:

// My code
try
{
using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connString))
using (var command = connection.CreateCommand())
{
command.CommandText = "...WHERE Id = @Id";
// Etc...
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
logger.LogError(ex);
throw;
}

// Someone else's code
try
{
var connection = new SqlConnection(connString);
var command = connection.CreateCommand();
command.CommandText = "...WHERE Id = " + id;
// Etc...
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
logger.LogError(ex);
}

Now we're talking about different code, good code and BAD code! Some people would say usage of var is bad practice, but that's what I consider style (after all, compiled it's still the same). However, every skilled programmer would notice the lack of using (or alternatively Dispose in a finally block), the swallowing of the Exception and the potential SQL injection. This isn't a matter of style, it's a matter of factually good and bad code. So when we're talking about people here I expect to find lots of different preferences which may not be mine (and which I might even find horrible to read), but I expect to find little actual errors. For some reason I tend to think that people who are on CodeProject know the difference between good code and bad code, whatever their style may be :)

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