Programming Horror

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Welcome to Programming Horror!

This is a place to share strange or terrible code you come across.

For more general memes about programming there's also Programmer Humor.

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submitted 2 years ago by Ategon to c/programming_horror

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[–] VaxHacker 1 points 11 months ago

I did once see if (!x) strcpy(x, ""); It was from a VB "programmer" who was experimenting with C. In production code.