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I've actually seen this type of code produced by a human-being who was trying to write good code. It was one of the students in my introduction to programming class in university, we had to write a function that squared a number or something, and he had written hundreds of lines of if-statements. Sometimes you just use what you know to complete an assignment I guess 🤷
Though I want to add this case for interview questions: "Write code that outputs every prime number smaller than 10."
And if the candidate doesn't do 'print "2,3,5,7";', I will deduct points.
Wow… did he not know about the multiplication operator?
Apparently not. It was very strange. Although it was the first few days of class and he might not have realized * is multiplication, because when does a non-programmer ever use * for multiplication?
I did something similar for a programming competition once because I couldn't remember the c64 basic function to return string length.
Once I got home I rewrote it properly because it bugged me so badly. LEN(string variable) was the command. Stupid!