When I'm shutting down my main PC, I sometimes get an "End Task" dialog box (from Trillian Pro, I think) popping up with the name: "Should not see me".
As for my own code: believe me, you do _not_ want to see some of the weird shit I did. (For one thing, I used to prefer lumping _all_ my code for a program in a single file. Mind you, this was back in my Atari ST days and GenST/Tempus 2 could take that without any problems.)
I have an incredibly poor memory. I've often written code in overnight sessions, gone to bed, then woken up later on, tried the game out and discovered to my shock and amazement that the bug I was gearing up to kill had somehow been fixed. Hence, my code often had comments like:
; **** God? I want a refund for my brain. ; **** I have a full receipt here and my mother has a service agreement with you.; **** She goes to church and everything. Hell, she's even Roman Catholic.
... and (Motorola 68K):
fxplay: move.l d0,-(sp) ; Bug fixed. Brain still crashing.
...or this (z80) code:
POP DE ; Warning: Stack pointer may go down as well as up.
I realised shortly after taking up programming that my memory worked best not with the more obvious mnemonic label names, but with names that I would actually _remember_. So I had important routines with names like "wibble" and "plerg".
Programming: Just Say No. It fucks with your head.
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Sean Timarco Baggaley.
[Edited by - stimarco on January 18, 2005 4:37:42 PM]
Sean Timarco Baggaley (Est. 1971.)Warning: May contain bollocks.