It looks like you're writing a for loop!

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Even the best programmers make shitty software, with bugs. But some programmers are naturally proficient at creating this special kind of software, as illustrated by a Croatian developer known as Stinky:

This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/10/it-looks-like-youre-writing-a-for-loop.html
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Oh, man. I know making fun of Clippy is like shooting fish in a barrel, but this parody app is hilarious:

http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/clippy/default.shtml

I love the default messages:

  • It looks like your keyboard is working correctly.
  • Sometimes I pop up for no particular reason, like now.
  • I thought you should know that today is [date]

This would be a GREAT prank app to install on someone’s PC. Hmm…

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The last one is on Scott Allen’s blog:
a href="http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2005/09/14/2201.aspx"http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2005/09/14/2201.aspx/a

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The For loop is great. (They type perfect C++ or C# all the way in until they get to the For loop. WTF kind of programmer is that?)

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Hi! Can you help me make a Java code with this output?

Input: 6
Output:

******
 ******

OR …

Input: 3
Output:

Thanks! :smiley:

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^ Copypasta programmer with a good IDE.

Please also note the catch blocks:
catch(ShittyCodeException), catch(WrongLanguageSyntaxException), and catch(InfiniteLoopException).