The Senior Format

Remy Porter

Computers were a mistake, which is why I'm trying to shoot them into space. Editor-in-Chief for TDWTF.

Alex W. used to work with a “senior” C# developer. This “senior” developer’s resume proudly proclaimed that he had 15 years of experience developing in C#.

That “senior” developer has long-since moved on to more senior pastures , but he left behind code like this:

string str =  "<sessionid> <client> <sessiondate>.XLSX";

str = str.Replace("<sessionid>", row["clientname"].ToString());
str = str.Replace("<client>", row["clientname"].ToString());
DateTime time = Convert.ToDateTime(row["startdate"].ToString());
str = str.Replace("<client>", row["clientname"].ToString());
str = str.Replace("<sessiondate>", time.Day.ToString().PadLeft(2, '0') + " " + time.Month.ToString().PadLeft(2, '0') + " " + time.Year.ToString().PadLeft(4, '0'));
workbook.WriteXLSX(companyPath + str);

Obviously, since this “senior” developer had been using C# since before it was invented, he was using it before they had added methods like string.Format(), or any sort of elegant date-formatting.

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