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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.

 
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Gary Wheeler5-Jun-21 5:44
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Gary Wheeler6-Jun-21 6:25
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I've been working here for 30 years, and in all that time there has only been one code review ever held. At the end of that one, the developer on the 'hot seat' told his boss if he ever held another one, he'd quit. I wasn't present, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't handled very well. I don't think anyone went into it with the idea of "stabbing it with their steely knives" trying to kill the beast, but I doubt the ground rules were very detailed. Also, the guy chosen as the guinea pig was probably the worst choice to go first. Sharp guy and easy to work with, but not one to handle criticism well.

That said, if there had ever been any kind of detailed code review of the POS I'm modifying, the author would have been terminated with extreme prejudice shortly thereafter.
Software Zen: delete this;

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