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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.

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Tom Clement30-Aug-12 15:23
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Years ago, maybe in the 1980s, at a previous company, we had a problem that manifest itself when the user got impatient and rebooted their computer during a long "Pack" operation (it was kind of an ISAM file). While waiting for the next release to fix the problem, I put out an emergency patch that displayed a distinctive cursor during the pack, so that users could be informed their computer wasn't hung (no pun intended). The cursor looked something like:

PA I CK

really a bit more like an hourglass with PACK written around it. As it happened, most packing operations were very quick and took only 1/10th of a second or so. So this insurance company client of ours had all these sweet little old ladies working there who would get these subliminal flashes of what they took to be a really dirty word - mistaking the "A" rendered in a boxy way with very few pixels for an "R". A defect was submitted saying that our product flashed dirty words at our users and that they were very very upset. The patch was pulled immediately.
Tom Clement
Serena Software, Inc.
www.serena.com

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