I had a co-worker who was responsible for supporting a system written in FORTRAN. The software was originally written in Italy and all the variable names and comments were in Italian. There was one well-worn copy of an English/Italian dictionary always in reach on his desk.
Gary
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But only Scooter could sing "Broccoli and Chocolate" properly!
Tracy Johnson
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A bank where I had my first programming job had their Mortgage system coded in COBOL, with vegetables as non-essential file names, as in BROCCOLI REDEFINES MTG-DUE-DATE. Made you hungry to read the code!
Connie Sellitto
Hillary Software, Inc.
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> ...or Hobbit/LofR characters! - d
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> Donna Hofmeister
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> I had a customer who wrote in COBOL and was a sailing nut. He used
> sailing terms for all of his variables, data item, base, and data set
> names. Very hard to follow his logic.
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> This has nothing to do with my co-workers but I thought it darn funny:
>
> Anonymous wrote:
>
> "I have a coworker who, despite being very smart, and even very
> knowledgeable about software, writes the most horrible code imaginable.
> Entire programs are stuffed into single functions, artificially
> stretched thanks to relentless repetition; variable and class names so
> uninformative as to make grown men weep; basic language features
> ignored, when they could make everything shorter and more readable;
> and OOP abuse so sick and twisted that it may be considered a war
> crime. Of course, being a very smart person who has been programming
> since before I was born makes him fairly impervious to criticism, so
> even a simple 'Do you see how much better this function is when
> written this way?' is hopeless. How can I make him see the light,
> realize the truth, and be able to tell good code from bad?"
>
> My favorite response:
>
> Sometimes, subtlety is overrated.
>
> "..., that piece of code smells worse than your uncle's codpiece
> (which I wish you would stop wearing to work), and in reviewing it I
> can deduce that your parents were never formally introduced."
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