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Does using four different languages in one statement qualify as "innovative"?
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Bien, of course c'est innovativi!
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Holy carp. As I read each line of that sample, I literally was saying in my head, "No... oh crap, no.. no way..."
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I think this applies:
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Never done anything like that myself, I've always done the HTML in the PHP code. I guess that means I'm not worthy.
Still, I've seen stuff like that at work as well, with the explanation of "Well, yeah, I could have just included module X and wrote a single line of code, but wheres the fun in that? It would be very boring code.".
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The Goggles. They really do nothing. Even when mixed with the Panic Blackout Glasses from The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy. My eyes, they're burning...all i can see is 42.42.42.42.42.42.42.42.42.42.42.42............
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"It's like an express train full of things designed to hurt your mind; just when you think that it's finished running you over, another car hits you, grinding yet another valuable part of your soul beneath its wheels." - Darren
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"2 - The Nod -- Creative, as in, using a single 32-bit integer variable to store two 16-bit integers."
You go to hell! You go to HELL and you DIE!
Whoever thought up this brilliant piece of engineering... and Microsoft, for making this a feature of how your event loop works you need a HUGE kick up the ass!
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who ever writes code like that should be shot.
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I didn't say he pulled it off. He only tried to be clever. Had he gone for simple he might actually become a good programmer.
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The golden rule of programming: Debug first, code later.
(ACSI - The 7 character library before ASCII)
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I propose the use of a "Goldberg Scale" to rate this type of code. This scale is (of course) named after the great cartoonist Rube Goldberg.
On a Goldberg Scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being boring code, and 10 being 1000 lines of uncommented APL, this code would rate a solid 8. If it was self-modifying, it would rate even higher.
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"Woah dude! My new program only got one file, one query and one output! That's how it's done! Yeah baby!"