Rube Goldberg Code

[Ray.R]

 Creating a 1D array from a text file.  Found here: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=466129

[RavensFan]

Instead of 1 case structure with 10 cases, let's deeply embed 10 True/False case structures with all of the corresponding string comparisons that need to go along with it.

Seen here.

Message Edited by Ravens Fan on 01-15-2010 11:49 PM

[muks]

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Message Edited by muks on 01-19-2010 02:04 PM

[Neil.Pate]

@Ravens

kudos for Kuala Lipis...  pretty small villiage in the middle of nowhere! I spent an evening there en-route to the Parhentian islands in April last year.

Message Edited by nrp on 01-20-2010 11:44 PM

[RavensFan]

I thought those were just a bunch of foreign words.  I had no idea what they meant.

Now I know they are places.  Kuala Lipis

Thanks.  I learned something today.

[DianeS]

This has to be the best thread of all time.

Just today, while reviewing some code for a client, I came across this little gem that I thought belonged here.

Huh?

[RavensFan]

That is the universal programming symbol for "Do you want to move this?"  AND "Are you really sure you want to move this?"

[DianeS]

Silly me!!

ROFL!

[tst]

If I had to guess, I would say the most likely reason is that there was another condition there which was removed and the programmer didn't remove the AND because they thought they may still need it. The easiest change, in such a case, is to AND the boolean with itself, and I wouldn't be surprised if I've done something similar myself (although ideally it would be removed the next time the code was edited if the change was deemed final).

[JÞB]

Caught myself with this R-G code