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Gimp. Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ) Making Wrong Code Look Wrong. By Joel Spolsky Wednesday, May 11, 2005 Way back in September 1983, I started my first real job, working at Oranim, a big bread factory in Israel that made something like 100,000 loaves of bread every night in six giant ovens the size of aircraft carriers.

Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

The first time I walked into the bakery I couldn’t believe what a mess it was. The sides of the ovens were yellowing, machines were rusting, there was grease everywhere. Can Your Programming Language Do This? By Joel Spolsky Tuesday, August 01, 2006 One day, you're browsing through your code, and you notice two big blocks that look almost exactly the same.

Can Your Programming Language Do This?

In fact, they're exactly the same, except that one block refers to "Spaghetti" and one block refers to "Chocolate Moose. " // A trivial example: alert("I'd like some Spaghetti! ")