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Inspired by the Pop-up Potpourri, the examples presented here aren't necessarily "bad" code nor do they imply the miserable failure that we're all used to reading here. The examples are more-or-less fun snippets of code like ones that we've all written at one time or another.

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A Simple Misunderstanding

by Remy Porter in Coded Smorgasbord on 2013-02-28

Some terrible code arises out of terrible business rules which no one truly understands. Some terrible code arises from laziness, sloppiness, or the need to just get it done now.

But there’s a special class of awful code that arises for a complete misunderstanding of how the language is supposed to work. That gives us things like the loop Rasmus found:

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