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 🤷

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Though I want to add this case for interview questions: "Write code that outputs every prime number smaller than 10."

And if the candidate doesn't do 'print "2,3,5,7";', I will deduct points.

[–] sisyphean@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow… did he not know about the multiplication operator?

[–] Buttons@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apparently not. It was very strange. Although it was the first few days of class and he might not have realized * is multiplication, because when does a non-programmer ever use * for multiplication?

[–] bufordt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I did something similar for a programming competition once because I couldn't remember the c64 basic function to return string length.

Once I got home I rewrote it properly because it bugged me so badly. LEN(string variable) was the command. Stupid!