The Pupil-Dilating Joy Of Compilation Success

Content Have you ever seen code so bad it made you laugh? David Seidman, former Security Program Manager at Microsoft (2005-2016) Answered Feb 8 Upvoted by Aveesha Sharma, Masters of Science Software Engineering, Arizona State Univ... and Mandeep Kaur, MS Software Engineering, San Jose State University (2017) I was working for Microsoft's security incident response team investigating a vulnerability. We opened up the relevant file. It contained 10,000 lines of uncommented archaic C code. At the top was a single comment: This code has bugs. It did.

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Every code review starts with righteous indignation. "Why would anyone write it this way?" Then you read it again. "No seriously, WHY?" By the third pass, you're questioning your own sanity. Finally, enlightenment hits: "Oh, that's why." Turns out the original author was dealing with some cursed edge case, a legacy system from 2003, or a database that returns null when it feels like it. The journey from "this is garbage" to "actually, I would've done the same thing" takes about 15 minutes and three cups of coffee. Bonus points if you end up apologizing in the PR comments.

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