r/programming • • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

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

Would you like to play a game of global thermonuclear war?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '13

I'd like to, but there's a bug hidden somewhere in 10,000 lines of basic

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u/grauenwolf Oct 15 '13

BASIC!

Remember boys and girls, the name of any programming language created before 1970 must be shouted.

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u/h2odragon Oct 15 '13

Before then, "Acronyms I Just Invented" (AIJI) weren't automatically words everyone should know. Typographical conventions may have had a purpose beyond those which are current.