Gentlemen, a call to arms!

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:11:41AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> But the impression I get is that many websites are merrily pointing out bad
> perl. How come I'm now aware of websites merrily pointing out bad
> {python,ruby,php,javascript} ?

One of my favourites is thedailywtf.com.  The front page currently has
these beauties ...

  public static void checkRational(int rational)
  {
     int myRational = rational;
     try
     {
     }
     catch (Exception ex)
     {
        checkRational(myRational);
     }
  }

and ...

  1000 GOTO 1002
  1001 GOTO 1010
  1002 GOTO 1001

and ...

  #define SIZE_2048 2048

  ...
  BYTE buffer[SIZE_2048];  /* data buffer 1024 bytes long */

and ...

  CREATE TABLE [DtxSurveys] (
  [Status] varchar (8000) NULL, 
  [Resp] varchar (8000) NULL, 
  [Last] varchar (8000) NULL, 
  ... snip ...
  [Supervisor_Name] varchar (8000) NULL, 
  [Supervisor_CUID] varchar (8000) NULL, 
  [Supervisor_UID] varchar (8000) NULL, 
  [File_Data_Date] varchar (8000) NULL)

-- 
David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence

What is the difference between hearing aliens through the
fillings in your teeth and hearing Jesus in your heart?