in reply to poll ideas quest
The worst piece of code in productive use I've seen so far was written in...
- Ada
- Algol
- APL
- AppleScript
- Assembler/Machine Code
- Awk
- Basic/Visual Basic
- Bourne Shell/C Shell/Korn Shell/Bash
- C
- C++
- C#
- Cobol
- Eiffel/Sather
- Fortran
- Forth
- Haskell
- Java
- JavaScript/ECMAScript/JScript
- JCL
- Joss/Mumps/M
- Lisp/Logo/Scheme
- MS-DOS Batch
- Occam
- Pascal/Modula/Oberon/Delphi
- Postscript
- PEARL
- Perl
- PHP
- PL/1
- Prolog
- Python
- Rexx
- Ruby
- Simula/Beta
- Smalltalk/Self
- Snobol/Icon
- SQL
- Tcl/Tk
- Other