Ayende @ Rahien

Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien CEO of Hibernating Rhinos LTD, which develops RavenDB, a NoSQL Open Source Document Database.

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Sep 07 2007

Depressing code

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I have seen some code that may require serious consulting sessions, but this is probably the most depressing piece that I have seen so far:

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And before you ask, it is about people...

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AASoft
07 Sep 2007
02:08 AM
AASoft

Erm..."CreateDeathProcess"??

Please tell me you are not trying to take over the universe...'cause, ya know, that kinda interferes with my plans to do so :D

Jon Davis
07 Sep 2007
05:02 AM
Jon Davis

Is this for a mortuary or an HR department to deal with laid off / terminated folk?

Gian Maria
07 Sep 2007
05:31 AM
Gian Maria

Can you post the code?, I'm always thinking about a routine that can kill someone :D

Alk.

PandaWood
07 Sep 2007
06:51 AM
PandaWood

Well, I suppose it makes sense, in isolation, as long as there's never a need for a 'OnKillDeathProcess' below the current 2 classes.

Markus Zywitza
07 Sep 2007
11:41 AM
Markus Zywitza

Let me guess: It is for a hospital. If someone dies, there must be some procedures fulfilled. The original developer had a strange kind of humour and a knack for design patterns.

Joe
07 Sep 2007
13:54 PM
Joe

I once had to write a method called MarkDeceased to handle ticking a checkbox when a patient dies. Yeah, pretty depressing.

Ayende Rahien
08 Sep 2007
15:57 PM
Ayende Rahien

Jon,

ERP for a nursing company.

Ayende Rahien
08 Sep 2007
15:58 PM
Ayende Rahien

Markus,

See my comment above.

The design is actually solid, but the details are horrifying because the domain is so depressing.

The property list for some of the entities...

Adi
09 Sep 2007
08:32 AM
Adi

You should send it to the WTF site.

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