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In article <15...@yunexus.YorkU.CA>, rre...@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes:
> We've had stupid program names, stupid programmers errors, and so on;
> now how about getting right down to basics: stupid programs.  The

A friend showed me this gem:

#include <stdio.h>

char string_return[256];

char *string3_cat(s1,s2,s3)
char *s1, *s2, *s3;
{
	FILE *temp;

	if ((temp = fopen("/tmp/string_cat","w")) == NULL)
	{	perror("can't open termprary string_cat file for writing--call P
		exit(-1);
	}
	fprintf(temp,"%s%s%s\n",s1,s2,s3);
	fclose(temp);
	if ((temp = fopen("/tmp/string_cat","r")) == NULL)
	{	perror("can't open termprary string_cat file for reading--call P
		exit(-1);
	}
	fscanf(temp,"%s",string_return);
	fclose(temp);
	unlink("/tmp/string_cat"); /* remove the temp file */
	return(string_return);
}


Yikes!  Why didn't the author #define /tmp/string_cat?  Now that would have
been good programming style. :-)
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