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To: PROCON

I was a FORTRAN and ASSY programmer - retired now. Funniest piece of code I ever debugged had a comment, “You should never get here”


7 posted on 08/20/2020 8:01:05 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

“Funniest piece of code I ever debugged had a comment, “You should never get here”.

The worst piece of code I had to maintain was given to me by a very ‘bright’ and clever programmer that used to modify OP codes in assembler.


15 posted on 08/20/2020 8:11:48 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: 11th_VA
I was a FORTRAN and ASSY programmer - retired now. Funniest piece of code I ever debugged had a comment, “You should never get here”

MY favorite as a COBOL programmer was the random ***DO NOT REMOVE THIS COMMENT*** that is somewhere in almost every single COBOL system.

The scary thing was, remove that comment and the program crashes.

64 posted on 08/20/2020 10:04:45 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
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