in reply to The joys of bad code
My all-time (least) favourite is an example from Rob Pike's Notes on Programming in C:
I laughed at the time, but I've seen it in real life (second-year programming assignments; TAing can be fun).Don't laugh now, wait until you see it in real life./********************************** * * * Add one to i * * * **********************************/ i=i+1;
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"Lines of code don't matter as long as I'm not writing them." -- merlyn
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