At work we have a terrible (massive) ASP CMS we have to manage. No documentation, near no comments and code straight out of basic tutorials. I came though the following piece of code in it (follow bTemplateUpdate).

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haha so basically you're doing all this for nothing because you're setting bTemplateUpdate to TRUE anyways!!!

If sNewTemplate <> "" Then
bTemplateUpdate = True
End If
If oReq.Form("oldTemplate") <> sNewTemplate Then
bTemplateUpdate = True
End if

LOL

I don't use ASP, but it's a simple if/else and very funny.

So 9 lines of code to set the bTemplateUpdate variable to true. So if the that sample hold true for the rest of the code 3/4 of the code for that CMS is a waste O.o .

Yea good luck with all that.

Its not all that bad, but my predecessor was an amateur at best. I keep finding pieces I recognize from beginner level tutorials I read when I initally learned ASP. His coding style reflected mine when I had 2 months of experience. He was an expert BS thrower though, he has everyone who can't read code fooled. We're rebuilding the whole freaking thing soon enough; it needs it.

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Well I give you credit for knowing ASP. I learned a little bit of ASP way back in the days around 1999-2000 when it was quite young.

I'm sure it has change tremendously since then....

No, actually. Microsoft has been putting all their efforts into .NET, asp has been a thing of the past for many years now. Everything you know about asp classic probably still remains true today. They haven't come out with anything new for it for quite a few years.

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Oh dear, judging from that snippet its gonna be a right ordeal to un-kludge the CMS.
Very amusing however, brought a smile to my face.

We don't have much code like that at work (I hope!), ours is just littered with comedic code comments.

I keep meaning to have a proper look at asp.net, I spent about 2 years writing VB (vb6.0 and .net, about a year each non professional) spent a few months faffing with C# too so it would be a logical choice for me to learn, I do prefer the simplicity of PHP development however.

I must say I really like the new Beast of Redmond languages / tools especially the Express editions.

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mysql> SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`clue` > 0;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

We're not even trying, we're wiping it out soon enough. We have been bandaging it for about nine months now, but they are all fixes made with a temporary mentality.

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haha, don't blame you.

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mysql> SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`clue` > 0;
Empty set (0.00 sec)