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I suspect this kind of genius deservse some sort of coding award. Shall we call it the "Golden Hammer" ?
CCC solved so far: 2 (including a Hard One!)
37!?!! - Randall, Clerks
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Sounds like you work with a coworker of mine
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Arrays are magical objects that only the high priests can call into being and manipulate.
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And every now and again developers must be sacrificed in order to summon them.
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I can think of a few you can have - do they have to be virgins?
(buyer collects, sold as seen and definately without warrantee)
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OriginalGriff wrote: do they have to be virgins?
Not a very limiting factor...
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Maybe not in the states, but in europe software developers are next only to film and pop stars in the "shagabillity" stakes! Unless they are VB developers, obviously.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Unless they are VB developers, obviously
Then they trump even Brad Pitt!!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
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You are both horrible liars.
Come on, we all know the standard programmer package involves a guy living in mom's basement at 20-something who plays World of Warcraft, goes to ren faires and hasn't touch a female pink part in 20 something years.
The upgraded "I'll code for food" programmer has a wife, 2 kids, a mortgage and wishes he had gone into business school.
For the premium package you get the choice of it being male or female, and the programmer is actually happy in the job. Most business do not opt for this upgrade.
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ragnaroknrol wrote: You are both horrible liars.
I think they are quite good at it!
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Obviously, you are not a european software developer! (Or you are a VB developer...)
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lol
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Yes, first-time sacrifices only.
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It's a normal practice that the company does...
they just find their own way to develop something interesting and land up into something weird...
Post it in some newspaper it is a sure shot horror....
syth.feana
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Member 4487083 wrote: I'm working with some really bad code at the moment. There is some code which joins a load of values (integers) with '~', and then it passes it to a function. So it would be something like 1~5~12~3 etc. In the function it then splits this values on the '~' to get each value. It would be so much more readable, efficient, and less frangile if they had used an array. It amazes me how these people do their job. The other code in the project isn't much better either, actually the other problems are more difficult to fix. I hate blaming other peoples code, but I think that's what I will need to do.
You're right; that is completely retarded.
Sincerely Yours,
Brian Hart
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Oh trust me, this code (may be in JSON format would help?) is MUCH better for passing stuff across the process border and through shared memory then defining all the data in structures in IDL file and implement custom COM marshaller. Then any single access to this data structure causes almost 1000 disk read operations (it reads TLB from DLL) - I had to debug it, and it is not fun.
Once again, if they use this ~ for passing data across the process border - I would not blame them - yes, I would use SafeArray instead, but still I would not blame these guys.
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that's extending a quite a bit of credit, lol!
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Then ~ does not join ints, it complements them; do you mean they passed a string with "~" as delimiter?
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That's the impression I got.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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Does the language support lists?
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VickyC# wrote: Does the language support lists?
It's C#.
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OMG!!! all the way I have been thinking it is some good old FORTRAN or PASCAL !!!
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I feel your pain, and yet I suspect you feel only some of mine. In the project I am working on this would no doubt have been implemented as follows:
string foobar(string xml)
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
string sXmlSelection = xml.SelectSingleNode("//xmlSelection").OuterXml;
sXmlSelection = foo(sXmlSelection);
string sXmlRestriction = xml.SelectSingleNode("//xmlRestriction").OuterXml;
sXmlRestriction = foo(sXmlRestriction);
...
return doc.OuterXml;
}
string foo(string xml)
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
string s = xml.SelectSingleNode(...).OuterXml;
s = bar(s);
...
return doc.OuterXml;
}
string bar(string xml)
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
return doc.OuterXml;
}
void main()
{
string xmlSelection = "<data><record opt='new'>";
xmlSelection += "<elem1>" + getElem() + </elem1>";
xmlSelection += "<elem2>" + getElem() + </elem2>";
xmlSelection += "<elem3>" + getElem() + </elem3>";
xmlSelection += "<elem4>" + getElem() + </elem4>";
xmlSelection += "</record></data>");
string xmlRestriction = "<data/>";
string xmlData = <data><xmlSelection>" + xmlSelection + "</xmlSelection>";
xmlData += "<xmlRestriction>" + xmlRestriction + "</xmlRestriction></data>";
foobar(xmlData);
}
I swear I've seen call stacks where eight methods are all calling one another with strings and returning strings, all of them working on xml, even though in most cases the only information used by the methods is the innertext of particular nodes. Every method parses the string to build an xml document, finds the real parameters to the method as text - never checking if nodes exist and thus ensuring a meaningless NullReferenceException in the event the poor person trying to use this "business logic" fails to pass the correct (and undocumented) xml to a method - then does some work such as selecting something from a database, stuffs the result into the xml document somewhere, and returns the OuterXml.
Apart from this leading to code that spends virtually all it's time parsing xml strings and rendering documents back to such strings it is also incredibly wasteful of memory. And when what could have been int arrays grow large it leads to additional problems because of large objects (the strings are of course continous in memory, making it harder for the garbage collector to move them around).
If anyone has any idea where this idea that string is the perfect data structure for absolutely anything comes from, I would love to know. I have never been able to understand it.
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