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Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time...
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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...
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Maybe a 2/10. Too obvious, IMO.
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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'.
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Wouldn't you think that the subject should have been "Hopeless"?
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U R the real joke here only.
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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....
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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.
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My thought exactly. Obviously I got here much to late to say it frist.
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Some people are just not lazy enough.
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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"...