[Gllug] OT computers in the movies

[Stig Brautaset]

* Tim Bateman <tabate at essex.ac.uk> spake thus:
> 
> Near the end of Swordfish, when he has to write the code really
> quickly (in the bank), there are loads of '//' and '/*'.
> I know its good practice, but then your trying to save someone's
> life???

Then it would be *extremely* good practice to comment your code :P 
...unless, of course, as in this film, you had a very short time and it was
supposed to be used only once...

But couldn't it be that some of the code was written beforehand? Or did
he hack it all up there and then?

Stig
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