• ><<< (unregistered) in reply to Kiss me I'm Polish

    ok how you du her?

  • ><<< (unregistered) in reply to Nazca

    jes but you can lerinin in his school! english und franz

  • synp (unregistered)

    I was once called to figure out why a certain transaction on a mainframe-based logistics system was running slow. This little PL/I gem was waiting in the source

    do while (serial>=19); serial = serial - 19; end;

    In case any of you are wondering, PL/I does have a modulu operator. Needless to say, "serial" was a 9-digit catalogue number.

  • sudopeople (unregistered)
    <input style="text-transform: uppercase;"/>
  • Kir Birger (unregistered)

    I'd just like to note that, aside from the fact that the code is centered around latin languages, it actually runs fine on my machine. I tested it against rather long fields too.

  • ME (unregistered)

    YOU GUYS LAUGH BUT IT WORKED DIDN"T IT>

  • Travis (unregistered)

    That code isn't really all that bad (I know... it's not great, but it shouldn't take that long to run). The problem is how IE handles concatenation of strings. If you were to run the same site in Firefox, it would have been much faster.

  • Peter Lawrey (unregistered)

    Hi I'm ~£-¬'¦ I assume these character just cause the program to blow up?

  • Segfault (unregistered) in reply to WhiskeyJack

    A sub WTF is that aside from being completely insane, they didn't even make the arrays the correct size wrt each other.

    "Yes I am an experienced *nix developer familiar with the pipe command: '|'."

    ...

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