I saw that, and for some reason I thought that you were commenting on misspelling or something. Then about 45 seconds later I got the joke. I think I've only actually seen that compiler error once.

Having a slow day? :-)

I found this on the interwebs:


Bad variable naming, times two, plus magic number, times one, equals meaningless code.

Fred.

Pointless code:


Whose code is this, you ask? Mine! :-o

How the hell that made it near a source file I have NO idea. Possibly auto-generated or possibly a hang over from a loop with more than 1 in it?

It's gone now...

Fred.

Not really bad code per se, but:


Tell me why I got these warnings? :-)

z=x/++x

M$?

Catching a throwable, sometimes, maybe, OK, rethrowing as a checked exception, what? :-/

I believe

is bad code.

And some people do agree with me - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580 ... e-into-shi

There is the whole http://code-wtf.livejournal.com/ on this - I know it's a bit in Greek but most of it is code anyway

Working on some horrendous code at the moment. Most of it is fairly average and normal, but a certain person did some stuff to it in the past that has rendered it nearly unusable now. The only example that I can succinctly post here is the following:

Removed 770,000 rows from a db table, none of which were used. This took over an hour to achieve. The database has no forreign key constraints. WTF. I can't explain more, really, but the 770 were autogenerated rows with no value... bleh.

Fred.