Coding Horrors: You can gather all your technical debt into one easy framework!

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Coding Horrors: You can gather all your technical debt into one easy framework!

Bastard: Jul 13, 2001; We are each responsible for our own destiny.

I posted this before, and by God, I'll post it again. A PHP gem created by a freelancer we hired:

code:

//init vars
$a;
$b;
$c;
...
$z;

This was complimented by no documentation whatsoever, and each var had a different type value, based on where it was used in the code. So at one time, $a was an array, somewhat later a string, after that a number (as in: use it like an int).

Debugging that was an interesting experience in anger control.

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