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This reminds of some C code a mate showed me back in the late '80s
from one of the UNIX flavours at the time. One was some nasty code
in crypt.c, the worst was a 150 character single line (with no
spaces) from somewhere inside the task scheduler.<br>
<br>
There was serious use of nested:<br>
<br>
a ? b : c<br>
<br>
conditions, a good number of using pointer to function array calls.
And some other hideous things with for loops and inc/decs. <br>
<br>
OK I understand that in the scheduler you want good performance and
compact code to get the most out of it, but some things were never
meant to be written.<br>
<br>
Kev,<br>
<br>
<br>
On 30/11/10 06:34, Thomas Edward Groves wrote:
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Actually I've never seen a
language that doesn't allow the most horrible spaghetti.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">It's just that some languages
make it easy.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">On the other hand the languages
which make it hard to write crap also make it</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">hard to write stuff that the
designers of that language hadn't thought of.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">C was designed to let the
programmer have all the rope he wanted,</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">that's why we so often hang
ourselves when using it.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">It's also why some of us so often
return to it too.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">And as for code beautifiers:
they're the most valuable tool that never gets mentioned</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">in books on programming that I
know of.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Odd that.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Tom</font></div>
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 29,
2010 2:46 PM</div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> Re:
[Klug-general] Obscure C at saturday's meeting</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 29 November 2010 14:35, David
Halliday <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:david.halliday@gmail.com">david.halliday@gmail.com</a>></span>
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1ex;">There is a reason why C as a language does
lean beautifully to code obfuscation. We all know that C was
just a joke that has got out of hand, alongside the base of
all *nix environments: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.asandler.com/jokes/computer/c.shtml"
target="_blank">http://www.asandler.com/jokes/computer/c.shtml</a>
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<div>From The Article:</div>
<div>We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following
syntax:<br>
<font face="'courier new', monospace">for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("|"+(*u/4)%2);</font><br>
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To think that modern programmers would try to use a
language that allowed such a statement was beyond our
comprehension!</div>
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<div>Perl has a reputation for this too.....</div>
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<div>Peter.</div>
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<div class="im">On 29 November 2010 12:53, Dan Attwood <span
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And for exactly this reason there has been a
policy in places I have worked of running any
C code through the C beautifier automatically
as part of the version control check-in
process. This has the advantage that coders
arbitrarily rearranging the code in their
preferred style whilst editing does not look
like a change, and that all code retrieved is
always in the house style, which makes for
easier debugging.<br>
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<div>someone at barcamp was talking about do just
this. Although they went one step further where
if it fell outside of some rules then they would
stop it from compiling and spit it back at the
developer </div>
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