alt Hacker NewsWhat would have been the purpose of stupid code like that?
Was it a workaround for things that didn’t fully complete on one iteration, so the devs kept hammering away at it until it worked?
What would have been the purpose of stupid code like that?
Was it a workaround for things that didn’t fully complete on one iteration, so the devs kept hammering away at it until it worked?
They were most likely just bugs. Quite possibly really stupid bugs.
Not every bug results in the program doing the wrong thing, they often just make the program do the right thing very slowly.
And nobody notices, since it still produces the right result.