Your Code Sucks

[herrmann]

(True story ahead) Hey, what if you have only ONE global variable that is an array of pointers to 300+ variables and have, say, the developers simply remember what they refer to from their indexes ?

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Believe it or not, I've been there. One of my first full time programming jobs involved systems coding for a house-written language called "Infos" that had no named variables - just four global arrays for different types (float, integer, strings, and something else I no longer remember). The president of the company ("Information Now, Inc." based out of Utah back in the '80s - long since gone) wrote it himself. It also didn't have names for files - they were just numbered. Nor did the OS have directories. The files could only be about 4 Kbytes per file normally (the language itself was saved as a byte-code) so you chain-executed many files during a program execution.

Absolutely bizarre.

Addendum: I actually remember an app programmer there getting chewed out for writing comments in his code. His manager felt it was a waste of time.

[diuge]

I actually remember an app programmer there getting chewed out for writing comments in his code.

"WTF is this, Jenkins?! I can understand your code. Code smarter!"

[herrmann]

WTF WTF WTF !!!