I once had the mispleasure to face a Bash script that was 35 lines tall but over 800 columns wide. The bulk of it was a two-dimensional array – or rather, a behemoth that behaved like an array of arrays – with way, way too many fields.

If that wasn’t bad enough, my code review to essentially rotate the table 90 degrees was rejected because – and I kid you not – the change was unreviewable in any of our tools and thus deemed too risky to change. /facepalm

The gall of some people.

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