Recent 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.

Oct 2009

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"My company sells access to a massive PHP application that was built a few years ago by The Originals," writes Magnus Bergmark. "The application has everything: slow interface, quirks-mode invalid HTML4, hidden POST forms for every link, you name it."

"The code consists of a few files arranged in a proper developmestuction environment, with thousands of lines in each file. Comments are mostly devoid, but I found a line with a comment about one-and-a-half thousand lines down."