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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.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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Sander Rossel6-Jun-17 21:10
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My very first paid job was working with a mainframe at British Rail, in the 1970s. We used a TSO (Time Sharing System) and a few terminals in a dedicated room. I had a train to catch home so usually was one of the first to leave. Very often the next morning I'd find my colleagues scratching their heads - seems the mainframe had crashed the previous evening. This happened pretty much every day for a couple of weeks. Eventually I came in late one day (train delayed) and my boss had noticed my terminal was powered off. How or why turning off the terminal crashed the mainframe I never understood, but crash it it did. If only they'd told me, a keen young "Energy Studies" student eager to not waste electricity...

At that job too we received mag.tape data, sent up from HQ in London. Usually it arrived fine, but on occasions all the data was wiped. This was at the Railway Technical Centre at Derby where all sorts of testing went on. Turns out the tapes came up, for convenience, on one of the test trains, right into the RTC, and on some days the coaches were shunted onto one of the tracks they were doing overhead power line testing... oops.
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