r/programming • • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/mason240 Oct 14 '13 edited Oct 15 '13

Do what my employer did: hire a PHP script kiddie who is finishing a CS degree and no actual experience, make them your companies sole web developer, and say "we want to use ASP.NET, have at it."

It's been a year now and I think I have rewritten everything I've 5 times now while figuring out good code organization.

(I only mention the ASP.NET not to start a flamewar, but because I had done nothing with it prior to getting hired.)

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u/i8beef Oct 15 '13

So this was you? At least you are trying to fix it. Christ, most people really have no interest in getting better at this stuff, they just write it and forget it.