best/worst code youve seen?

[Abramus]

Indeed it's not perfect, indeed it could be better

So what's wrong with a little critique?

we all know you hate C++ senselessly, as most of us hate Java senselessly

Can you define "we"? Do you have some kind of mind-reading ability or what?

leave your C++ senselessness for your Java forarms

I would personally feel better if you left your whining for yourself.

So why do you keep bringing up Java?

LB did that first.

[Abramus]

On topic: I vote for the code J4ke posted. It's just pure awesomeness.

[booradley60]

The ol' switch-on-boolean...

    bool isFoo;
    //...
    switch(isFoo)
    {
    case true:
        //if...
    case false:
        //else...
    default:
        debug_assert("Shouldn't happen!"); // ya think!?
    }

I saw it in code that had been through review, which I guess is an abbreviation for rubber-stamping.

[NoXzema]

Actually, I've seen the boolean switch as well. At one time, this would cause an optimization that would turn it into a jump table internally. I don't recall if this was an actual speedup but that was the intention I believe.

[Cubbi]

Speaking of booleans, today's talk of the net was this boolean condition from gcc: https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/7057506456ba18f080679b2fe55ec56ee90fd81c/gcc/reload.c#L1056-L1110

[10X9216C]

Can you define "we"? Do you have some kind of mind-reading ability or what?

Damn straight. There is more to mind-reading life than this single thread boy.

[BHX]

myesolar wrote:

we all know you hate C++ senselessly, as most of us hate Java senselessly

"we"? As in the voices in your head? You have got to learn to speak for yourself and not others because I don't hate any language. Every language has pros and cons, but nothing to hate them for.

[htirwin]

I hate C# because programs written in C# seam to take forever to start up and it drives me absolutely insane. A few times I accidentally opened a file in visual studio 2014; wanted to throw my computer out of the window; ctl-alt-del ...

[BHX]

*shrugs* It must just be that I love languages and love to learn them. I've dabbled with A LOT of languages and can't say I've ever found anything that made me hate them.

[Little Bobby Tables]

BHX: brainfuck++

[BHX]

What is to hate about BF or the BF++ extension. I find it absolutely fascinating. I even found ArnoldC fascinating, I may not consider them practical, but still fascinating.

[Lachlan Easton]

Have you had a look at befunge? That's a really interesting esoteric language.

[BHX]

No, I'll have to look into befunge though. I find them all interesting, but don't use all of them.

[Little Bobby Tables]

is befunge the one that took a beam search written in lisp to generate hello world? anyways, when you use brainfuck++ its almost useful that you can actually use it for a real major project, but it ends up nope

[Cheraphy]

#include <stdlib.h>

void main() {
    system("echo \"hello world\"");
}

[Little Bobby Tables]

cheraphy: is that the best code youve seen or the worst?

[Cheraphy]

Which do you think? :P

[Little Bobby Tables]

best?

[Cheraphy]

Yep!

_sarcasm

[BHX]

Lets see, void main and system? Shortest example of what never to do for printing output to terminal.