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Dice again: Are they just trying to be stupid?

Followup to this previous entry:

Another Dice ad

This ad's pseudocode is:

if (threshold = salary_sucks) {
 goto = dice.com();
      } else {
         suck_it_up;
      }
end

Never mind the atrocious formatting. WTF is the end doing there? They started out using {} pairs, then suddenly an end token, after properly balanced braces?

This was written by someone who can't code, and I think even less of these people now than I used to.

Posted by seebs on October 11, 2005 02:13 AM |

tubby | October 12, 2005 06:59 AM

Actually the code works in Clipper and variants of FoxPro I think. The final end is interpreted by the computer as whatever is structurally required. ENDDO and ENDIF are created from a simple END.

Please do not post this publicly, Peter. I don't want to take away from your original message.

Thanks.

seebs_lawyer | October 12, 2005 09:23 AM

I fed it to perl. I got this:

Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment at dice.txt line 1, near "salary_sucks) "
Execution of dice.txt aborted due to compilation errors.