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Showing my geek mentality here but This article is hilarious. I think you have to write code to get the joke but I'm not certain. It's an article about how to write unmaintainable code.

Obscure film references

Use constant names like LancelotsFavouriteColour instead of blue and assign it hex value of $0204FB. The color looks identical to pure blue on the screen, and a maintenance programmer would have to work out 0204FB (or use some graphic tool) to know what it looks like. Only someone intimately familiar with Monty Python and the Holy Grail would know that Lancelot's favorite color was blue. If a maintenance programmer can't quote entire Monty Python movies from memory, he or she has no business being a programmer.

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*snickers* brilliant. i love it. and this so reminds me of a classmate I had in Computer Science last year who actually used names like this. The best class name he ever produced was something like 'OrderOfTheKnightsOfSunDownAndSunRiseAndEverythingElseThatHasToDoWithTheElevationOfTheSun'. I kid you not.

~NEbU~

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The best class name he ever produced was something like 'OrderOfTheKnightsOfSunDownAndSunRiseAndEverythingElseThatHasToDoWithTheElevationOfTheSun'. I kid you not.

ROTF!!!

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my computer science professor is obsessed with star wars (and, to a lesser extent, tolkien), and likes to use obscure character names and references for his constants and such when he writes our exams, just to mess with us. it always cracks me up, but some people in the class hate it!

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it always cracks me up, but some people in the class hate it!

It would crack me up. My programming instructors would makr me way down for though. They were totally into the whole 'make everything perfectly clear' thing.

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yeah, he only does it when it's supposed to be confusing anyway ("find the errors"- and "what does very long piece of code with lots of irrelevant and misleading information print out?"-type questions...).

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