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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.

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Gary Wheeler31-Dec-21 4:07
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Agreed. Back in the Long Ago Time, when I was in college, I took the computer graphics sequence and even did an independent study course. All of the programming was in PL/I-80[^] on Z-80 CP/M machines.

The year after that, some numbnuts in the Computer Science department switched to using Forth. The courses were still taught using the classic Fundamentals of Computer Graphics by J. D. Foley and A. Van Dam which used a procedural pseudo-code for presenting algorithms.

The pseudo-code made sense when implemented in PL/I. In Forth, not so much Dead | X| .
Software Zen: delete this;

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