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 1 year ago by giantrectangle to c/programming_horror

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I can only pray that that's some (bad) ORM-generated code because that's the only way I can bear to keep breathing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

that's exactly why I'm not a fan of automatically generated DB backends data frameworks. the abstraction often can't handle edge cases and looking under the hood is often a horror

[–] Mesa 6 points 1 year ago

The only explanation is that this was written on a TV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

What idiot wrote that one by hand