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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.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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bill fleming 202212-Sep-22 9:02
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Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away… When I was a new (less than 1 year) programmer and working on an IBM 1401 with no math co-processor, I noticed a program that took a long time to do percent calculations (divide). In those days a divide was a software subroutine (a.k.a. function) provided by the vendor to achieve desired results. I had the bright idea improving on it and figured that if you multiplied the numerator by 100 and then looped through a routine that subtracted the denominator you could get there faster. And it worked. Spectacularly. Until… When a numerator came through that was much larger than the denominator the machine virtually locked up. Lessons to new programmers, always test all use cases and never assume your data will be good – always assume the worst where data is concerned. Or as I heard somewhere: no matter how good the validation, some idiot will find a way to get bad data past it.
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