--- title: Classic WTF: The Table Selector | daily.dev description: A classic WTF submission from a German developer who coined the term 'quäl-kot' for particularly painful code. The featured horror is an interface called... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/classic-wtf-the-table-selector-rfrlotc3y twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Classic WTF: The Table Selector | daily.dev og:description: A classic WTF submission from a German developer who coined the term 'quäl-kot' for particularly painful code. The featured horror is an interface called... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/classic-wtf-the-table-selector-rfrlotc3y og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RfRLOTC3y.png og:image:alt: Classic WTF: The Table Selector og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Classic WTF: The Table Selector **[The Daily WTF](https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A classic WTF submission from a German developer who coined the term 'quäl-kot' for particularly painful code. The featured horror is an interface called ITableSelector with over 30 individually named methods — selectTable1() through selectTable31() — instead of a single parameterized method, a textbook example of poor interface design and code duplication. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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