Worst Peice of Code in the World

[RichardLH]

OK - so the 4 spaces I put in place of the tabs got stripped out by the post form - but you get the idea.

[NiteOne]

You are forget the best one of all . Microsoft Windows ME. it was hard to code for and support. NiteOne

[NoCake]

That's pretty awful. My gold standard for vomit-inducing code was a render function written for a game (no names). It was a single function, 3000 lines long, and had "goto" statements jumping into loop and if statement bodies. Nobody but the writer understood it. The game shipped and was moderately successfully, but I could never look at it without thinking of the festering cancer of code lurking at it's heart. -- modified at 11:39 Tuesday 22nd August, 2006: Emphasis added to 'into'. I still can't believe that. I can understand (but not condone) jumping -out- of a loop or if statement... but into one? beggared belief, that did.

[billrad]

Nothing beats C for obfuscation. See link (I hope.) below. http://www0.us.ioccc.org/main.html[^] Bill Raddatz Something wise (hmmm) You can't push on a rope.

[jstaque]

The only really bad thing about this code is using the incorrect insert ID...everything else can be rationally explained (e.g., debug output (as mentioned above)). Generally, those variable names aren't that bad, as they are rarely, if ever, used much after their initial declaration. But I guess it's pretty l33t to make fun of other people's code! I dare say I've seen much worse code...hell, I've written worse myself. :) :sigh:

[ClockMeister]

That kind-of looks like a piece of code that might have been auto-generated by a GUI tool of some kind.

[derry755]

using code to clean the string is more easier than manually moving the dirty code?

Doing is better than saying.