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I won’t say much about these other than some of them are downright hilarious.
I’ve seen things like this in my past programming days and I’m probably guilty of one or two myself. When you’ve been up all night coding, sometimes your brain just doesn’t work right.
There’s probably even been a time or two when I forgot to remove my debugging code for production and ended up with strange variables and output that shouldn’t be seen by an end user. Oops.
I didn’t read through every one of them, but from the ones I did, this is my favorite:
Once I had a junior programmer writing VB code that needed to know the day of the week. He decided to write his own code, and read something like:
if (day = 1) or (day = 8) or (day = 15) or (day = 22) or (day = 29) then weekday = "Monday" elseif (day = 2) or (day = 9) or (day = 16) or (day = 23) or (day = 30) then weekday = "Tuesday" ...Trying to be educational I asked him for his opinion about his own code, and he said that he would simply modify it every month.
– PedroChan
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4 Responses for "Funny Code"
September 16th, 2004 at 7:58 pm
1“ended up with strange variables and output that shouldn’t be seen by an end user”
My favorite has to be when I was having problems with a variable not refreshing its contents from page to page, it was maintaining old contents… so I reset the scope from whatever-it-was.lasthistid to “fingerscrossed.lasthistid”
it worked
I didn’t touch it afterwards. Who am I to argue with the fates?
but occasionally it shows up in the output if they somehow manage to bring really bad data in at that point. I laugh every time I see it, but I haven’t bothered fixing it yet.
September 17th, 2004 at 7:17 am
2Brilliant! For more laughable code like this you should check out: http://thedailywtf.com/
October 14th, 2005 at 7:11 am
3Why is it that so many braindead code examples come from VB programmers?
That quote make me lol :D
November 23rd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
4i don’t get it…
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