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saw a 2nd year CS guy run a maze solver (for final exam) with 300 nested if-statements. worked about 50% of the time. so he added another 5000 nested ifs and got it up to 90%. good enough!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

300 nested if statements, (...) added another 5000 nested if statements.

At this point I want to doubt that they actually wrote it themselves, vs writing a metaprogram to generate the code.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not sure if that would've made it better or worse ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, a metaprogram?

ifs printing ifs...