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		brown9-2 on March 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The worst program I ever worked on Did you ever ask this person why he wrote this code in this manner? Did he trot out the "job security" crap or was there a legit reason?

gaius on March 16, 2011 [–]

I met someone once who called every variable X. Yes really. The compiler was somehow just supposed to figure out that X on this line and X on that line were different things... What is baffling is that he did have code that worked, kinda.

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