The Weird and The Wonderful

   

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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"Ximba!" Jean A Brandelero11-Oct-12 3:38 Jean A Brandelero 11-Oct-12 3:38  Just found: 'Dim w As Object = DBNull.Value 'Dim i As Integer = 1 'i = w 'Throw New Exception("XIMBA") Re: "Ximba!" Brisingr Aerowing11-Oct-12 3:50 Brisingr Aerowing 11-Oct-12 3:50  I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking Re: "Ximba!" BobJanova11-Oct-12 3:55 BobJanova 11-Oct-12 3:55  Re: "Ximba!" Brisingr Aerowing11-Oct-12 10:02 Brisingr Aerowing 11-Oct-12 10:02  Yeah. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking Re: "Ximba!" Bernhard Hiller12-Oct-12 3:34 Bernhard Hiller 12-Oct-12 3:34  Just un-comment the lines of code and run the programm. If i=w works fine, you'll be thrown to Ximba (a region in South Africa). Beware of the mythical forces which could be applied. Re: "Ximba!" zenwalker198516-Oct-12 19:23 zenwalker1985 16-Oct-12 19:23  hmm...probably the original dev loved this place or he was hinting something about it this way My cUr10U5 w0rlD modified 17-Oct-12 1:30am.

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