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Post #19,663
by tuberculosis
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11/28/01 4:53:48 PM
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New Maybe I'm Amazed
Or not. The *average* programmer is an imbecile.

I particularly like the loop over the index to get that single iteration. Very clever.
Post #19,678
by Meerkat
11/28/01 6:37:02 PM
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New I love the comment...
/* do I really have to do this? there should be no changes at this point */


Guilty as charged for writing similar. Then again, I was working on 25-year-old COBOL programs that had comments like "This bit doesn't really do anything, but it'll break if you remove it", so I felt I was just sticking to the established coding 'style' :-)

On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
     An example of production code. - (Arkadiy) - (3) - Nov. 28, 2001, 04:10:54 PM EST
         Maybe I'm Amazed - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Nov. 28, 2001, 04:53:48 PM EST
             I love the comment... - (Meerkat) - Nov. 28, 2001, 06:37:02 PM EST
         Viva Tables, F arrays and linked lists -NT - (tablizer) - Nov. 29, 2001, 06:29:21 PM EST

Every 3-4 episodes they would finally attack each other and some stupid aerial melee would begin with missed attacks inevitably shattering backdrops while direct hits only propelled the enemy into backdrops for shattering.
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