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From TheDailyWTF.com:

From TheDailyWTF:

Here's an excerpt from today's post:

Reader Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson, whose middle name means Glacier (now, how awesome is that!), sent along this chunk of C-code, straight from Iceland.

First and foremost, thanks for the WTF submissions! Please keep 'em coming. They don't have to be code snippets or diagrams, just something technical-related that made you say or think What the F--! And now that I think about it, I'd love to see some crazy Boss Emails and Memos. I had a trove of them saved from the last company I was at, but lost them all. So let's see yours! Just use the Contact Form, and feel free to include a website to link back to.

I received some great ideas for new features and thought I'd incorporate them in a new version. Here's what's new:

I'm sure we've all heard, over and over, that inline SQL is generally a bad practice, and that we should use Stored Procedures when possible. But let's be realistic for a minute. Who wants to write a stupid stored procedure for every stupid little simple query needed. Like, for example, this query from an actual, production, report-producin' web page:

As a certified Überprogrammer, I get quite annoyed with inexperienced maintenance programmers looking at my code and asking questions that any coder with a clue would instinctually know. Take for example this function: