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Friday, August 27, 2004

The Daily WTF is pretty depressing

The Daily WTF is pretty depressing. What's most depressing is that example after example is from Microsoft programmers coding in VB (including ASP), with a few examples sprinkled in of crappy Java code. There has to be lots of crappy Perl, Python, Lisp, and especially PHP code out there (oops, forgot C/C++). I want to see that. The preponderance of examples from Microsoft technologies and Java programmers gives a false impression that they have a monopoly on bad programmers.

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There is obviously PUH-LEN-TEE of bad C and C++ code out there. I've seen bad PHP, but it's all been free code. There's something different about bad free code and bad code that some company paid $40+/hr for.

∴ Adam Vandenberg | 27-Aug-2004 4:58pm est | http://flangy.com/ | #5373

Just take a look around CPAN. Plenty of bad Perl code there. (Plenty of good code, too, though.)

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