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by TrackerFF 1275 days ago
It's a fun read, but it is pretty much impossible unless you're running a one-man show, with zero oversight or checks at place.

Code like that should set off alarms very fast, and any code review should catch it early on.

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I'm that one man show, within a very dysfunctional org. I write a lot of internal tools, unprompted, just to save time for me or colleagues I like. I get bored sometimes, so deep inside some of them there's a naive Forth interpreter, and I then write some non performance critical logic in Forth. It's just a silly personal joke, at least until the proverbial bus hits me.
That is why you make sure your team mates are either in on it or too weak to protest.