I'm just popping in a new post here for this forum we're kicking off. The description for this forum is simply this:

Discuss software design issues, quirky things you've found, asshat approaches to problems, shitty code your co-workers wrote, shitty code you yourself wrote and wondered what you were thinking, elegant problem solutions (to flip things around), design patterns, "hey look I can write a compiler with one line of code because I'm so clever" type stuff

This is a for-fun forum where you can pretty much discuss software design issues including such as:

• Why every programmer should use singletons
• Why OpenGL is far superior to DirectX
• Using Goto is perfectly fine
• Why professional programmers who only code during their day jobs will never be as good as those who code outside of work
• Why commenting EVERY SINGLE LINE OF CODE is important // add x to y and store inside of sum

   ....
   // tCount keeps showing up negative here for some reason..  it should never be negative
 
   tCount = sqrt(tCount*tCount);  // Fixed!
 

It is for posting pieces of code that we can all look back on and laugh about. Code samples are also appreciated.. we love code. We also love related comics as well.

Glob pattern matcher anyone (*)?

main(int c,char**v){return!m(v[1],v[2]);}m(char*s,char*t){return*t-42?*s?63==*t|*s==*t&&m(s+1,t+1):!*t:m(s,t+1)||*s&&m(s+1,t);}

Share your frustrations.. share your triumphs.. Let the games begin.

if (x^2>0) then patato else tomato

is it supid enough for this new forum ? ^^

Sorry =)

This is stupid because the answer is always potato

Of course you can replace patato with tomato. If you prefer tomato. Do you like patato ?

I wish this forum would've been around when I posted this!

• Using Goto is perfectly fine

This just popped into my mind:

Brilliant. =) I was trying to find a comic that embodied this idea.. yours is better.

33 parameters? Yikes. Reminds me of something I did once when I was learning, a long long time ago. I wrote a function that took 25 parameters. It was for a tile engine, and the 25 parameters represented the values of each tile in a block of 5x5 tiles that were used to calculate some sort of classification code. Even worse, I named them all letters of the alphabet, so I had something like int calculateMegaTileCode(char a, char b, char c....). It was... man, it was horrible. I spent hours laboriously writing that function as a HUGE chunk of if (a==0 && b==0) statements. I was actually proud of it and myself when I finished it. I was 14, and I felt like I had just completed the most complicated and awesome piece of code anyone had ever written. Eight years later when I looked at it just for nostalgia's sake I nearly wept.

if(lolReturnThisInstead == true)
	return true;
else
	return false;

While helping with QA for Lotus Notes, I found my favorite all-time bug. The symptom was that somehow application processing became gated by mouse interrupts. So nothing would process at all unless you moved the mouse. Better, the faster you moved the mouse the faster things got done! Interrupt processing must have become entangled somehow, but it was really fun to demonstrate!