Tuesday 25 August 2009

Impenetrable Code

However elegant a programming language, some fool will always find a way to write ugly code.

Here's a word I recently implemented in Forth:
: C
>R
256 15 16 1799
4 13107 2 21845
R>
4 0 DO
TUCK OVER AND -ROT
INVERT AND ROT / +
LOOP
;
Although I didn't set out to intentionally create something hideous, I'm appalled by how difficult to understand the code is. How can I make the word easier to comprehend and can you remind me what it's supposed to do?

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