Re: Ugly source contest

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From: be... AKA Solitair
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 1990 10:24

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>I found this masterpiece in a piece of code i was looking through yesterday.
>
> system("printenv PRINTER > /tmp/caption.tmp");
> in = fopen("/tmp/caption.tmp","r");
> fgets(default_printer,30,in);
> if(strlen(default_printer)>0)

That, I consider "structured" programming, I definitly :-) would have coded
the last line as:    if(strlen(default_printer))

>and the rest of the code isn't in much better shape.
>--
>!Thomas Grennefors               ! proud member off THHS krfc (tlps)
--
Sincerely,                 berg%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
it runs in only 5 min.  Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."

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