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Our infamous unnamed programmer wrote:
> &KeelOver ("$ErrorCode : Bad Medium or other error. (copy)") if ($returned != 0);
Robert wrote:
> Here's the answer. He had too much to drink and was going to &KeelOver()....
> No.. wait.. he just got back from a bad psychic (sometimes called a Medium)
> and was trying to contact some long lost relative, but it didn't work.. or
> maybe it did. .Is that why he's Keeling over?
And Mark-Jason wrote
> I think your theory about how he had too much to drink is right on.
> Perhaps `medium' refers to whatever he was drinking. If the medium is
> `bad' then that could explain the keeling over as well as explaining
> the program itself
I just felt I should point out that Robert and Mark-Jason have done an
amazing job of describing the guy who wrote this.
This, sadly, is typical of the kind of code this guy writes. There's
just so much wrong I don't know where to begin -- the random mix of
local and global variables ... his strange variable names ... the
inconsistent formatting ... the lack of error checking ... his
construction of a non-unique, variable length datetime stamp ... the
references to the mysterious $returned (another global, and all other
references to it in other parts of the program were commented out).
Sigh.
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