Best StackOverflow Question EVER!!!

RobertKaucher

We are building a specialized BOM explosion at work and in looking at different ways that people have implemented trees and other hierarchies we cam accross:
c++ - Cycles in family tree software - Stack Overflow

Everyone

Uh wow... so in that case, you draw a straight line instead of a tree right?

rfult001

To be fair it does make you stop and question any assumptions you have made in your logic. Are we sure this wasn't posted by a college professor as a way of messing with people?

RobertKaucher

Totally could have been. As a database developer, and even more so now that I am developing line-of-business apps, I find it is exceptionally important to take messy human reality into account.

N2IT

RobertKaucher wrote: »

Totally could have been. As a database developer, and even more so now that I am developing line-of-business apps, I find it is exceptionally important to take messy human reality into account.

This reminded me of a time I went over my old girlfriends house and uncles where sitting on the laps of nephews and daugthers were older than their aunts.

Bizarrrrrroo

If you want to get good at Visio go ahead and try modeling that family tree

Hypntick

Best comment - "#include "fritzl.h" Problem solved."

lsud00d

Hypntick wrote: »

Best comment - "#include "fritzl.h" Problem solved."

I saw that and lol'd