[Hiram]

We've all seen some pretty sad lines of code, whether or not it was written by a younger, less experienced you from the past, or someone else. What's the worst you've come across?

Personally, some of my "favourites" have been declaring every variable globally, at the top of the file, even your typical "int i" for your for loops, and checking booleans in an odd way, like this:

bool foo = false;

if (foo == true)
{
   // make magic happen
}

[no2pencil]

The worst piece of code I have seen recently was a shell script. In it the code set a variable with current working directory (output of pwd), then did an action that didn't use the variable, & then unset the variable.

[cfoley]

awww these pieces of code aren't that bad. I've got plenty of bad code on my machine right now. Some of them even have logic and/or compile errors!

[NeoTifa]

Everything that I write.

This post has been edited by NeoTifa: 03 May 2011 - 06:10 AM

[codeprada]

ScriptKiddie sk = new ScriptKiddie();
sk.initialize_hax(ScriptKiddie::CIA_FIREWALL_BREAKER);
sk.set_options(ScriptKiddie::TIMEOUT, -1); //never give up!!
sk.set_options(ScriptKiddie::MESSAGE_TO_DELIVER, "If you're reading this then someone's gonna get fired");
sk.run();

[Creecher]

 ++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.-/>-------.>+.>.

Hello, world! in Brainfuck.

[no2pencil]

NeoTifa, on 03 May 2011 - 09:10 AM, said:

Everything that I write.

Everything that she writes.