BreakPoint
An example of simply atrocious code
Holy crap... I honestly cannot believe that someone coded this. It's like there was an earthquake in the block diagram and the programmer was on LSD. It seems more like he was trying to paint a picture rather than write code. There is literally subVI that takes a string of nubmers, indexes each item in a string, converts that digit to I32, then multiplies by 10^x to create an array. Then he sums the array. It's absurd. Here's what I mean:
And I've just been tasked with finding one little subVI and updating it for our new oven controller. Joy.
And here's about 1/2 the diagram:
God help me...
I feel your pain. Was mostly doing LabVIEW consulting for the last several years, inherited a lot of mediocre to atrocious code. Have settled at a company now where the lead has produced a pretty slick architecture and is pretty much a diagram "neat freak" so it is coherent and pleasant to look at. Hang in there my friend!
Wow. Your example of Rube Goldberg could have been totally done with a node that was used in the Rube Goldberg (string to number).
Cheer up. My first inherited code looked a lot like that. I was still in my LabVIEW infancy, but I claimed that I could spend a week fixing the code or totally rewrite it in a day. I was allowed totally rewrite it and I had an initial coding done in the day. I spent another day fixing small bugs. I doubt you are that lucky right now. But think of this as a chance to show people what NOT to do.
