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What is the worst programming sin?

26 Jul 2004 to 1 Aug 2004 What's your pet peeve when it comes to source code?

Text entry answers for sorted by frequency of occurrance.

(7) all of the above
(4) CListCtrl
(2) all of them
(1) back stabbing, arrogant programmers
(1) bad spelling in online poll options
(1) Accidentally inserting destructive, self-replicating code wilst writing DB access routines...
(1) All from [3] to [5]
(1) Code that does not work
(1) Coding while very drunk.
(1) commenting out deprecated code instead of removing it!
(1) CTreeCtrl (Just to be different :)
(1) data mining
(1) Extensive comments that are completely wrong
(1) ExtremelyLongFunctionNamesThatResultInCompoundSentencesAndTakeMeLongerToTypeThanTheCodeInTheFunction();
(1) Gargantuan functions and spaghetti code
(1) generating codes(eg Invoice Number)
(1) Inconsistent coding
(1) java server pages
(1) javacgi.com
(1) leting myself get dragged into meetings where I allow peer pressure to get to me and change EVERYTHING I've been working on 180degrees
(1) Listening to so called PMs, who can PM their way out of a wet paper bag
(1) me
(1) Misspelling the word "codiong"
(1) Most of them above actually. Especially bad grammer as in "pre-codiong". It's a good thing that is not a variable in a program.
(1) ms word
(1) No (or insufficient unit tests)
(1) No pre-codiong design and planning & Poor (or no!) error handling
(1) no profreeding
(1) No testing
(1) none, i'm coding god
(1) not enough C****Ctrl
(1) not finishing what you start
(1) Not helpful forums
(1) ofdm
(1) optimizing code before I even know it's slow.
(1) Poor variable naming
(1) reader for plastic card
(1) Single-character variable names not used for loop indexes
(1) Sticking an infinite while loop in the code before leaving for Australia for a few weeks.
(1) Too many external dependencies
(1) Truthfully all of these options
(1) tunl
(1) using machine language w/o design concept, w/o documentation, and w/o error handling
(1) Variables that have not been initialized, Poor commenting, Poor code formating
(1) vb activex dll
(1) VB.Net
(1) vb.net school management Project
(1) visual basic
(1) web custom controls
(1) when it doesn't work, lol, I'm just beginner.
(1) Writing bad code to stay consistent with existing code.