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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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Gary R. Wheeler29-Jul-19 15:01
Gary R. Wheeler29-Jul-19 15:01 
The last time I wrote a significant amount of assembly language was the late 90's. It was an OS/2 device driver for a piece of custom hardware. 18,000+ lines of assembler in the driver, relatively little of which was 'cruft' required to connect the driver to OS/2. We had a lot of functionality in that driver in order to avoid the latency of passing information out to our primary application and then back into the driver for reaction.

To date in my career I think that's the smallest body of code that I've spent that much time (three years or so) concentrating on.
Software Zen: delete this;

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