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My friend and colleague, the extravagantly gifted software engineer, globe-trotting bon vivant, and intrepid adventurer Yaniv Sarig, has sent me a outrageously funny item that will, I’m afraid, only evoke incapacitating hilarity in those of you who know a thing or two about programming.

But it’s too good not to share, so here it is. I hope some of you out there enjoy it.

2 Comments

  1. bob koepp says

    Outrageously funny!? More like tragicomic. I finally gave up trying to customize programs because the programmers who created them wrote code like that.

    I pine for the “old days” when programmers strove for elegance and efficiency. But with virtually limitless fast memory, why not use a hundred lines of code for something that can be done with three?

    Posted June 18, 2011 at 6:34 pm | Permalink
  2. On my first real job out of grad school, one of my first assignments was to take over the maintenance of a very large FORTRAN code that had been written and modified by many people who no longer worked at the company.

    When I began to peruse this beast, I noticed a declarative statement that made my heart skip a beat:

    pi = 22./7.

    I knew then that I was in very deep shit …

    Posted June 18, 2011 at 11:06 pm | Permalink

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