hell is other people's code

[recursivelyenumerable]

they have sent me hunting for a bug in the deepest darkest corners of our company's product aka the parts I had nothing to do with

i can superficially fix the bug but still only have a vague idea what else might or might not break as a side effect of any change i make, and of course there weren't any unit tests or anything, so this has been going on for weeks now

functions should not be 300 lines long and have seven undocumented parameters

[Diunx]

This is the worts thread I have ever seen on the internet.

[recursivelyenumerable]

hell is other people's forum posts, too

[T234]

Sounds like you're in the same spot I am, only you have some idea of what you are doing. Most of the code I'm working with is commented, but in German.

[Bocsius]

Preach on, brother.

[recursivelyenumerable]

heh, a Google search for my subject line which I thought was clever yielded hundreds of matches

[Madrun Badrun]

You should do a search and replace that removes all comment delimiters from the code without removing the comment text itself.

that sounds scary.

[Bocsius]

heh, a Google search for my subject line which I thought was clever yielded hundreds of matches

It's a universal truth that other people's code sucks.

[Tauntaun]

Sounds like you're in the same spot I am, only you have some idea of what you are doing. Most of the code I'm working with is commented, but in German.

send it to me. i will translate it for you

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and add some sexyness to it

[close]

"Would you like more penis?"

yes/no

[Reb]

if yes: hump
if no: goto yes

[Bocsius]

Speaking of other people's code sucking, I'm now having to add some new functionality to a project I did a year ago. I'm finding the year ago version of me sucks at programming. It's all  I can do to keep from rewriting everything.