The Weird and The Wonderful

   

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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Re: That's one way to do it - It's a joke for sure! Peter Kelley 202118-Aug-21 1:56 Peter Kelley 2021 18-Aug-21 1:56  I'm sure this project is a gag! (and I'm snickering!) Has anyone yet suggested porting this to some cloud-native database of the even numbers? Re: That's one way to do it - It's a joke for sure! Richard Deeming18-Aug-21 2:08 Richard Deeming 18-Aug-21 2:08  Feel free to suggest it[^]. "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer Re: That's one way to do it Slow Eddie18-Aug-21 1:56 Slow Eddie 18-Aug-21 1:56  What? I am probably dumb, or inexperienced, or both, but I see no practical use for this. Zaphod Re: That's one way to do it Slow Eddie18-Aug-21 1:56 Slow Eddie 18-Aug-21 1:56  What? I am probably dumb, or inexperienced, or both, but I see no practical use for this. Re: That's one way to do it englebart18-Aug-21 2:17 englebart 18-Aug-21 2:17  Thanks for sharing this… I was looking for a way to stripe my html tables! Re: That's one way to do it atverweij18-Aug-21 3:04 atverweij 18-Aug-21 3:04  That can be done better with a recursive function: function IsEven(number) { if (number === 1 return false; elseif (number === 2) return true; else return IsEven(number - 2); } Now it does all positive numbers EDIT: because I get serious reactions on this code The code above is how NOT to do it - it's satire. modified 20-Aug-21 8:19am. Re: That's one way to do it dandy7218-Aug-21 3:21 dandy72 18-Aug-21 3:21  Points for being clever. Sadly, someone would still use it... Re: That's one way to do it atverweij18-Aug-21 3:48 atverweij 18-Aug-21 3:48  If someone really uses it, he or she deserves it Re: That's one way to do it dandy7218-Aug-21 5:57 dandy72 18-Aug-21 5:57  Sometimes the best thing you can do is let others hang themselves. Figuratively speaking. Re: That's one way to do it BruceCarson18-Aug-21 6:49 BruceCarson 18-Aug-21 6:49  No...only positive integers. Since this is JS, some jerk could pass a float in and get your recursive function to march off the negative end of the numbers. Re: That's one way to do it atverweij18-Aug-21 7:25 atverweij 18-Aug-21 7:25  Hmmm, you are right. The the improved improved version. function IsEven(number) { if (number === 1) return false; else if (number ===2) return true; else if (number > 2) return IsEven(number - 2); else return IsEven(number + 2) } Now it does negatives too EDIT: because I get serious reactions on this code The code above is how NOT to do it - it's satire. modified 20-Aug-21 8:19am. Re: That's one way to do it BruceCarson18-Aug-21 13:52 BruceCarson 18-Aug-21 13:52  And now this line of code is used: IsEven (4.2); It'll bounce around 0 until the heat death of the universe. Re: That's one way to do it atverweij19-Aug-21 2:00 atverweij 19-Aug-21 2:00  You are taking this code seriously? Re: That's one way to do it kapalmuks<329-Aug-21 11:58 kapalmuks<3 29-Aug-21 11:58  ..yes..is there anything else i should be serious about?.. 🤪🤪🤪🤪 Re: That's one way to do it kalberts18-Aug-21 14:59 kalberts 18-Aug-21 14:59  Why are all the 'else's there? Do they improve code generation? Re: That's one way to do it atverweij19-Aug-21 2:00 atverweij 19-Aug-21 2:00  No, they worsen it Re: That's one way to do it Bernhard Hiller19-Aug-21 21:12 Bernhard Hiller 19-Aug-21 21:12  With big number (I mean really big numbers), you will run into a StackOverflowException. What about "tail recursion"? Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus! Re: That's one way to do it atverweij20-Aug-21 1:32 atverweij 20-Aug-21 1:32  Really? Re: That's one way to do it kapalmuks<329-Aug-21 11:41 kapalmuks<3 29-Aug-21 11:41  hope your happy!! Re: That's one way to do it MarkTJohnson18-Aug-21 3:23 MarkTJohnson 18-Aug-21 3:23  I'm trying to guess what certain CPers would do if they were confronted with this person. JSOP - bullet in the guy's head to put both the guy and everyone else out of their misery. honey the codewitch - After she quit twitching, she'd write a parser to optimize the code. OriginalGriff - figures out how to turn it into a CCC clue Nagy - just wanders off, asking where the gin is. Me - I'd tell him to turn it all into a switch statement. I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. Re: That's one way to do it wapiti6418-Aug-21 4:54 wapiti64 18-Aug-21 4:54  I'd side with JSOP, after I made them delete everything. Re: That's one way to do it Daniel Pfeffer18-Aug-21 23:22 Daniel Pfeffer 18-Aug-21 23:22  Me: Have Security dress the guy in a hazmat suit, and escort him out of the building. I'd then cordon off the area and decontaminate everything he touched on his visit - in an autoclave, by choice. This level of stupidity leaves traces wherever it goes. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W. Re: That's one way to do it Jörgen Andersson24-Aug-21 7:53 Jörgen Andersson 24-Aug-21 7:53  Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I'd then cordon off the area and decontaminate everything he touched on his visit - in an autoclave, by choice Anything wrong with fire? Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello Re: That's one way to do it kapalmuks<329-Aug-21 12:09 kapalmuks<3 29-Aug-21 12:09  ..better be ready..you cant fight fire with fire.. ..you might be burned.. ..were you?.. 🤠🤠🤠🤠 Re: That's one way to do it Kirk 1038982118-Aug-21 3:46 Kirk 10389821 18-Aug-21 3:46  You know... It's 2021, and the IRONY flows freely in all things... I expected to see a macro (written in JavaScript), that writes the javascript file: for (x..) if x % 1 == 0 write "if (number == " + x +") return false;" else write "if (number == " + x +") return true;" == And to see him asking people to crowd source running that file, to help him out! == Next question... Where is his test harness... Or is he caught in an infinite loop?

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