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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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fabrice.leal3-Apr-09 6:52
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EyeYamFedUp1-Apr-09 8:00
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Thomas Weller2-Apr-09 0:57
Thomas Weller2-Apr-09 0:57 
This is clearly copied from somewhere. You can see that from the nonsense prefixes. Either from the net or from this VB6 Win32 API code snippet tool from MS (forgot the exact name).

Obviously this guy is a VB5/6 'programmer' who was under the earth for the last 10 years. Maybe he is coding for 30 years or so, but he is/was 'coding' exclusively in VB. He has no idea of OO programming, maybe he thinks VB5/6 IS OO... D'Oh! | :doh:

And regarding modules named modCommon or Globals or the like: they are just crying out loud that there's a significant problem with the systems overall architecture (which is also obvious from the module description).

Regards
Thomas

www.thomas-weller.de

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.


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