Programmer Humor

bool isEven(int num) {
   return !isOdd(num);
}

bool isOdd(int num) {
   return !isEven(num);
}

I've actually seen this type of code produced by a human-being who was trying to write good code. It was one of the students in my introduction to programming class in university, we had to write a function that squared a number or something, and he had written hundreds of lines of if-statements. Sometimes you just use what you know to complete an assignment I guess 🤷

I always figured this was a nice joke but obviously not code that would ever actually be written by someone... Then I ran into this millimeter to inch conversion code in production this past month:

if (isNaN(mm)) return 0;
if (mm == 6) {
    inch = 0.125;
}
else if (mm == 8) inch = 0.25;
else if (mm == 10) inch = 0.375;
else if (mm == 15) inch = 0.5;
else if (mm == 20) inch = 0.75;
else if (mm == 25) inch = 1;
else if (mm == 30) inch = 1.25;
else if (mm == 40) inch = 1.5;
else if (mm == 50) inch = 2;
else if (mm == 60) inch = 2.5;
else if (mm == 80) inch = 3;
else if (mm == 90) inch = 3.5;
else if (mm == 100) inch = 4;
...

Good solution! I think you should show the last 3 lines that makes it work tho. FIFY:

private bool IsEven(int number){
    if (number == 1) return false;
    else if (number == 2) return true;
    else if (number == 0) return true;
    else if (number == -1) return false;
    else return !IsEven(abs(number) - 1);
}

Not sure why people still implement this themselves when there are APIs that will do it for you, like https://isevenapi.xyz/

private void GenerateCode(){
  println("private bool IsEven(int number){");
  println("if (number == 1) return false");
  for(int i == 2; true; i += 2){
    println("if (number == " + i.tostring() + " return true";
    println("if (number == " + (i + 1).tostring() + " return false";
  }
}

When you're paid by line...

That's terrible! Didn't we all learn that each method must have exactly one return statement? Please refactor to use a return variable and a single return. And get off my lawn!

in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

You missed some cases...