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[Request] Looking for resources on terrible algorithms, architecture, and design (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 6 months ago by nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Hey folks! I think this request is right up this comm's alley. I'm sure that we all know bogo sort but, what other terrible/terribly inefficient algorithms, software architecture, or design choices have you been horrified/amused by?

I, sadly, lost a great page of competing terrible sorting algorithms, but I'll lead with JDSL as a terrible (and terribly inefficient) software architecture and design. The TL;DR is that a fresh CS guy got an internship at a company that based its software offering around a custom, DSL based on JSON that used a svn repo to store all functions in different commits. The poor intern had a bad time due to attempting to add comments to the code, resulting in customer data loss.

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[–] mo8it@fosstodon.org 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

@nickwitha_k Pavex: https://fosstodon.org/@mo8it/112223892348033614