>>Oh, I'm sorry......don't things like that just make you wanna go FIND the
>last programmer that worked on the project and......hurt them in new and
>imaginative ways?
>
>Since the fields often had identical names (like DATE, DESC, and (really!)
>MEMO) the code was --- ummm --- interesting.
>
>Barbara
Just reminded me of a programmer who used a variable named PROC. OK, the
word for percentage here is "procenat", so it sounded logical, and the
compiler never complained (or she never compiled it - it was mFoxPlus),
but developed many confusing, and, yes, inventive error messages.
Imagine a line like
proc = qty*100/totalqty
Poor girl never knew why it didn't work :)