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A single line of code from a large application that somehow manages to provide an almost endless insight into the pain that its maintainers face each day.
For those of you stuck at work today, or in one of those 191 countries that don't celebrate Thanksgiving Day today, or -- *gasp* -- actually reading this from home while on holiday, here's a Representative Line that should get you in the holiday spirit. It's the subject of an email sent by the CFO to Mike and the rest of the company ...
Good news, everyone: it's time for a new series! Technically, this is not the first time that I've presented a Representative Line: a single line of code from a large application that somehow manages to provide an almost endless insight into the pain that its maintainers face each day. However, going back and renaming the old articles is a bit of a hassle, so I'll just pretend this is the first episode.
Today's Representative Line was uncovered by Hank Miller while he was "getting to know" a titanic system by fixing some of its bugs. This following function definition pretty much sums what the whole system is about ...
Oct 06