The Weird and The Wonderful

An excellent condensation.

Apropos of which, the antidote I've found most effective against "excess cleverness" is a year or so programming exclusively in assembly language. Just about any engineer who has an assembler-only task will quickly realize that only simple assembler programs are debuggable or maintainable...no matter how determined to show off he is!

Joe Woodbury wrote:

Have people gotten so accustomed to complexity that they think of only complex
solutions?

std::array<char, 4> data;
// Do stuff

Mark Wallace wrote:

If you're considering stopping reading your e-book

public string ReadFile(string filename)
{
     try
     {
          return File.ReadAllText(filename);
     }
     catch
     {
          return File.ReadAllText(filename);
     }
     finally
     {
          return File.ReadAllText(filename);
     }
}

try
{
   return 1;
}
catch
{
   return 2;
}
finally
{
   return 42;
}