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Monday Links from the Chippy, or maybe the Chinese, Vol. LXIV

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    #11
    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    [*]The worst program I ever worked on - "Most contract jobs fade pretty quickly in memory after the work is done, but some you remember for the rest of your life. This is one of the latter variety." Jacques Mattheij's software horror story.
    Sounds very familiar. Back in the .com era on one of my first programming jobs, I was given the task of deciphering a perl CGI script in which all the variables were successive letters of the alphabet. No variable had a name longer than 1 character, and no function calls were used. It was a good few hundred lines long. Haunts me to this day.

    Hopefully I'll never come across the bloke who wrote it again. Sajid Anwar, if you're out there...
    "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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      #12
      Originally posted by Freamon View Post
      Sounds very familiar. Back in the .com era on one of my first programming jobs, I was given the task of deciphering a perl CGI script in which all the variables were successive letters of the alphabet. No variable had a name longer than 1 character, and no function calls were used. It was a good few hundred lines long. Haunts me to this day.

      Hopefully I'll never come across the bloke who wrote it again. Sajid Anwar, if you're out there...
      This chap perhaps?
      "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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        #13
        Originally posted by DaveB View Post
        This chap perhaps?
        Nah, not a chance that the guy I knew would ever be able to code anything that would get accepted onto CPAN.
        "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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          #14
          Originally posted by Freamon View Post
          Hopefully I'll never come across the bloke who wrote it again. Sajid Anwar, if you're out there...
          I believe he posts as "MarillionFan" these days

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