Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 17/08/2013 05:56 PM, Warp wrote:
> > 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.)

> Hmm, yes. I'm just trying to visualise that now... What would I do if I 
> had no idea what I'm doing? (I guess the question is, how many of these 
> programs ever *worked*?)

Mind you, these people generally knew the pythagorean formula to do the
job (after all, they were university students.) They still managed to
break the 100-line mark.

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                                                          - Warp

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