Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>    int abs(int input)
>    {
>      int value = 0;
>      for (int n = input; n != 0; n++)
>      {
>        value++;
>      }
>      return value;
>    }

Having been a teaching assistant at the computing science lab, I got to
see some pretty weird programs made by students.

For example, you wouldn't believe how complicated calculating the length
of a 2D vector can become in the hands of an inexperienced programmer.
(This should be a literal one-liner, yet even 100 lines of code were
regularly broken just to do this simple thing.)

> * return sqrt(x*x); // Evil.

Many C and C++ compilers will actually optimize that to abs(x). I wouldn't
be surprised if a C# compiler wouldn't do the same...

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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