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title says it all... International Obfuscated C Code Contest http://www.ioccc.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 8:24 AM Subject: RE: Line-by-line commenting in source code > See "How to Write Unmaintainable Code" at > http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=2547 > > My favorite tip is the one on using extended ASCII characters in variables. > > Regards, > > Scott Ingvaldson > AS/400 System Administrator > GuideOne Insurance Group > > -----Original Message----- > date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:50:32 +1100 > from: Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > subject: Re: Line-by-line commenting in source code > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2004, at 08:04 AM, Booth Martin wrote: > > > what is "INLR" & "*INLR" ? > > Oh hah, very droll! A rhetorical question if ever I saw one. > > I've seen programs commented entirely in Latin, I've seen code where > every internal variable was a rude word or phrase, I've ported code > which had 12 different flags for sleep and the original programmer > resorted to national languages and spelling errors to distinguish them > so the code had variables called sleep, snooze, siesta, sieta, etc. You > can imagine what the rest of his code looked like. Complete CRAP! > > Some years ago I inherited code where the programmer closed every > program with a quotation or verse reference from the Bible. Perhaps he > felt that all his effort was to the greater glory of God, or perhaps he > was exhorting his God to ensure the code worked correctly. I found such > comments offensive and removed them all. Faith has no place in an > environment predicated on logic. You might as well slaughter a goat > (goats again?) and place its entrails on the keyboard at midnight > (which is what some SRCs mean). > > At one time in my youth I had to write a PLMI macro that had to get > stuff from a profile and put stuff in a profile. I called the macro > HOOVER and gave it two functions: SUCK retrieved stuff and BLOW stored > stuff. We (Antipodeans that is) thought it funny but our American > compatriots didn't find it at all amusing. They also had difficulty > with us saying we'd "knock up" some code ... > > I currently have to work on code where the only comments are slagging > off IBM or some other staff member because the original programmer > didn't understand OS/400 nor the concept of backwards compatibility. > That's an exercise in frustration. Needless to say I remove the > offensive comments as I find them. > > All these examples place a good case for code reviews. > > Regards, > Simon Coulter. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > FlyByNight Software AS/400 Technical Specialists > > http://www.flybynight.com.au/ > Phone: +61 3 9419 0175 Mobile: +61 0411 091 400 /"\ > Fax: +61 3 9419 0175 \ / > X > ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail / \ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message and accompanying documents are covered by the Electronic > Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521, and contains information > intended for the specified individual(s) only. This information is > confidential. If you are not the intended recipient or an agent responsible > for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, > copying, or the taking of any action based on the contents of this > information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication > in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original > message. > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > >
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