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Monday, January 09, 2006 3:08 PM
This is sheer genius:
System.Math.Sin( double a )
System.Math.Cos( double a )
...etc
all take an angle in radians as their argument. However:
System.Drawing.Drawing2D.Matrix.Rotate( float angle )
and System.Drawing.Drawing2D.Matrix.Rotate( float angle, MatrixOrder order )
both take the angle in degrees. Who on earth designed this?!??
...
Never mind, it's not that important. I'm just going to take a few deep breaths, get my blood pressure down, and go and make a nice, soothing cup of tea instead... and then I'm going to submit this to thedailywtf.com. For the rest of you, just watch out for this little gotcha: things like this are the reason multi-million dollar space probes go missing.
About Bart Read
Bart has done many things since he started work at Red Gate Software Ltd in August 2004, but nowadays he's (mainly) the product manager for the .NET Developer Tools. He still feels like this is a bit like admitting you were cheering for the Empire whilst watching Star Wars, but for now he's along for the ride. In a previous incarnation he was a project manager leading the .NET Reflector Pro, ANTS Memory Profiler 5, ANTS Performance Profiler 4 & 5, and SQL Prompt 3.0 - 3.6 projects. He still occasionally writes some code and, in the past, has touched the code for most of the Red Gate SQL developer tools... some of them still haven't recovered from the shock. He was born and grew up in Dorset, was educated in Nottingham and London, and likes music and real ale. His photo is extremely misleading.