Lots of discussion about bad code.
As a change of pace, I'd like to acknowledge a debt to one of the worst coders in the history of VFP.
He'll be nameless for obvious reasons, but this man's code could be in the Smithsonian - it's that bad.
Beside being an abominable coder, he's a marketing genius and he has strewn countless victims across the greater New York area.
The great comedian Bob Hope used to say "I want to be funny, but if I can't at least let me pick the act that I follow."
This guy was the ideal act to follow
I had a great deal going for a while by just cleaning up his messes.
The uncomfortable truth is that it's much more profitable to clean up after someone like him than it is to write good code in the first place.
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Fortunately- or not - depending on your viewpoint, he's left the business and has his eye on a new set of victims.
One of my friends in that business is cleaning up.