• jenn (unregistered) in reply to Ol' Bob
    Ol' Bob:
    C-Octothorpe:
    Anon:
    Jon:
    The AARP called. Using "old" as a folder name is insensitive to the superannuated.

    Might I suggest "vintage"? Or "experienced"?

    AFAIK, experience only counts when you remember said experiences, no?

    slowly ducks

    I feel I should be mad about this one - but I can't remember why...

    Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time...

  • (cs)

    I'm disturbed that everybody is discussing the lack of a loop, as if the end result is otherwise acceptable...

    Are those zip files of the source code...? :-/ Allow me to introduce you to source control:

    http://git-scm.com/ http://mercurial.selenic.com/ http://subversion.apache.org/

    Textual data could be managed just the same.

    If it's binary data then zip files still seems a bit sketchy... It should probably be put into a database and backed up using the DBMS...

    Microsoft shops are generally oblivious though...

  • (cs) in reply to xtremezone
    xtremezone:
    I'm disturbed that everybody is discussing the lack of a loop, as if the end result is otherwise acceptable...

    Are those zip files of the source code...? :-/ Allow me to introduce you to source control:

    http://git-scm.com/ http://mercurial.selenic.com/ http://subversion.apache.org/

    Textual data could be managed just the same.

    If it's binary data then zip files still seems a bit sketchy... It should probably be put into a database and backed up using the DBMS...

    Microsoft shops are generally oblivious though...

    Ha, you almost got me there...

    Maybe a 2/10. Too obvious, IMO.

  • x00|\|3s!s (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Property is illusory.
    Exactly. Who's to say who owns a particular material thing. It's just a rectum, who says it's your rectum or that you know what's good for it?
  • B (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    I just threw up in my mouth.

    In related news, Microsoft invented this product called SQL Server. Maybe these guys want to check that out sometime.

    There... is so much wrong with this comment. SO MUCH. Please learn to qualify your references a bit better. Put like this you sound awfully ignorant. Of course, it doesn't help that MS created a product with a name that sounds like a standard thing, if you don't call it 'Microsoft SQL Server'.

  • Friedrich (unregistered)

    Wouldn't you think that the subject should have been "Hopeless"?

  • (cs) in reply to Altourus
    Altourus:
    What's the joke behind Nagesh? I can't understand anything he types.

    U R the real joke here only.

  • Alan (unregistered) in reply to Craig

    We need them, so we hire the ones that look good on paper.

    Then we fire them when we realise how crap they are

    And the rest of the team then has to fix up the crap left behind....

  • Hate (unregistered)

    Dear all, a loop is hardly a solution here.

    Loops go from 1 up to some specific number, and here you need to go down from 70. With a loop, you'd just end up with multiple copies of the same file, which would be stupid.

    Thus, the original coder was a wise person, sidestepping this trap. Also, loops are generally evil with unpredictable side effects, just like this one.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Dilbertino
    Dilbertino:
    Paid per line?

    My thought exactly. Obviously I got here much to late to say it frist.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Did the author^W perpetrator of this code never think “there's got to be a better way”?

    Some people are just not lazy enough.

  • Jules (unregistered) in reply to JasonA_
    Created by someone who thought they were working in a DOS batch file?

    Judging by the use of DOS 'IF NOT EXIST' statements, I'd actually surmise that this originally was a DOS batch file that was converted (possibly automatically) to VB at some point, presumably because somebody said "we can't have a batch file to do such a critically important task"...

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