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Recent Coded Smorgasbord

Inspired by the Pop-up Potpourri, the examples presented here aren't necessarily "bad" code nor do they imply the miserable failure that we're all used to reading here. The examples are more-or-less fun snippets of code like ones that we've all written at one time or another.

Convoluted toString, Interesting Comments, and More

by Alex Papadimoulis in Coded Smorgasbord on 2010-05-19

"Everyone knows that Russians are the best programmers, and the guy we recently hired is no exception," Kip DeMane wrote, "though his English is a little... off. Here are his comments from a recent commit."

r22795 | t-------- | 2010-05-10 16:06:35 -0400  | 1 line

cleaned code, modified function format_for_rtf . no more 
numbered key to access video array elements, renamed all 
camel toe vars, applied consistent coding formating

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