Looking for ugly code comparisons WAS: Slashdotter looking forkids' programming language

[Bill Marriott]

A few weeks ago, I came across a blog by someone who actually ran a contest 
for *readable* code. The assignment was to write an algorithm for producing 
anagrams. My response, and links to the original contest (where you can see 
some truly hideous examples) can be found at http://revuser.com/readable.htm


"Judy Perry" <katheryn.swynford at gmail.com> 
wrote in message 
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>I again come hat-in-hand to ask for some really ugly-looking code examples
> in those "real world" programming languages to compare with Rev for the
> Slashdot thread.
> Posters there are actually recommending things like Assembly(!), Java, & 
> C#!
> <shudders>
>
> Specifically the OP was looking to teach basics such as conditionals,
> variables & loops.
>
> Does anyone have any ugly examples?