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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.

 
GeneralRe: at least he tried Pin
Armin Fryder20-Jun-07 1:29
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DynV21-Jun-07 18:27
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General3 years back I wrote like this :) Pin
_anil_12-Jun-07 1:03
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Sylvester george12-Jun-07 1:12
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar19-Jun-07 21:59
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BadKarma12-Jun-07 2:32
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Rage13-Jun-07 1:10
professionalRage13-Jun-07 1:10 
I think it already happened to everyone to rewrite existing code or API just because one did not know that the code already existed.
In a different manner, as I was a student, it took me one week to transform serial signals (-12/+12 Volts) into a (0/+5V) signals using all kind of electronic beings (resistance, amplifier, ...) just to find out after that that someone had already thought about the problem and that we could buy RS232 integrated circuits everywhere. Blush | :O


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GeneralRe: 3 years back I wrote like this :) Pin
Collin Parker13-Jun-07 14:43
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Sathesh Sakthivel9-Jul-07 20:03
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GeneralBrings back memories [modified] Pin
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Michael Sadlon7-Jun-07 8:18
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Michael Sadlon7-Jun-07 8:20
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GeneralNot the same Pin
Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳7-Jun-07 16:44
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