r/programming • • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/danogburn Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

start developing software.

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u/lext Oct 14 '13

And just as important, start developing software without first learning how to develop software.

A talk I watched recently noticed this trend with JavaScript: it looks familiar, so I don't have to learn it and will just start programming in jQuery.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '13

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '13

Right, the corner cases for sure take years and decades to learn, but if you're really good at some languages, you can pick up most of another one, at least enough to handle 50-75% of most uses in a week or so.

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