Wacky Programming Tales
Keith G. Murphy
keithmur at mindspring.com
Thu Aug 19 15:04:24 EDT 1999
Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>
> [strange programming]
> The most confidence uninspiring piece of code I ever had the displeasure to
> maintain contained something like this (allegedly C++, but mainly it's
> intersection with C):
>
> i = 0;
> while( i < max_index ) {
> /* some copying or update (not modifying i) goes here */
> i = i + 1;
> }
>
> This was written by a *very* expensive consultant working for a large
> multinational accountancy firm.
>
I think I can explain this. The original code was written to compile
not under C++, but under a little known and short-lived language known
as "C=C+1". It was to C++ as Python is to Perl.
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