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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: Just how many formats can we use to represent the same data? Pin
Chris Maunder27-Jul-07 3:40
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codemunkeh27-Jul-07 6:38
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martin_hughes27-Jul-07 7:21
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Ian Shlasko27-Jul-07 11:10
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ne0h27-Jul-07 7:31
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Paul Conrad27-Jul-07 20:12
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pbraun27-Jul-07 14:14
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John R. Shaw27-Jul-07 23:30
John R. Shaw27-Jul-07 23:30 
You actually almost lost me at one point – lol.

If I had not been in this business so long I might have been surprised, but the only thing that surprises me is that they gave you enough information to figure all that out.

Sorry I very tired right now – but that was very entertaining.

P.S. I am an old DOS guy so a time line for each step might have clarified why they did that to me (changing technology and all) – but I doubt it.


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"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra

GeneralWell is it SQL or isn't it? Pin
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Rob Graham26-Jul-07 11:14
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GeneralAwesome! Pin
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