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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
GeneralMore great naming Pin
Rob Grainger7-Aug-14 5:37
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RantHaving enough data Pin
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GeneralThe first time, and the first time 2. Pin
Rob Grainger7-Aug-14 0:27
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Rob Grainger7-Aug-14 1:04
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter7-Aug-14 3:32
professionalKornfeld Eliyahu Peter7-Aug-14 3:32 
Lucky bastard...
We just finished the porting of an AS400 DB, where table names were T123P3 and column names were C23A1. The one designed it dead years ago and we had to read table-table to figure out what the table for. We got some help from an application we could run against the DB, but took over 8 months to identify all tables and columns...And just for the fun - the DB was as far as it can be to be normalized...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

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Rob Grainger7-Aug-14 5:34
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Rob Grainger7-Aug-14 5:35
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GeneralSetProperty!!! PinPopular
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Super Lloyd6-Aug-14 12:53
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