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Re: Have you ever encountered something like this?

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On 6/5/2012 3:23 PM, mike3 wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Like this?
>
> <return type>  BigFunction(int param1, int param2, int coodles, int
> cooties, ...<40 more parameters>, long lastparam)
> {
>        ...
>        <7,000 lines of code>
>        ...
> }
>
> Have you ever encountered something like that before? I haven't, but
> I'm just curious if you have and to hear stories about it as it sounds
> like it'd be quite a nightmare and adventure.

I've seen that sort of thing in two contexts:

1. Machine generated code.

2. Very old fashioned code, carried forward for decades without being
re-written.

Patricia

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Have you ever encountered something like this? mike3 <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-05 15:23 -0700
  Re: Have you ever encountered something like this? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-05 23:01 -0500
    Re: Have you ever encountered something like this? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-06-06 08:26 +0100
  Re: Have you ever encountered something like this? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-06 09:50 +0100
  Re: Have you ever encountered something like this? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-06 13:09 -0700
  Re: Have you ever encountered something like this? Ed Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2012-06-06 19:13 -0700

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