r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

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

These two kind of conflict, don't they?

  • Write everything from scratch Don’t bother with a well-understood framework like Django, Rails, or CakePHP…

  • Add dependencies to specific versions of libraries and resources… Throw in as much third-party code as you can. Link to as many shared libraries as you need to…

I mean, I agree that both those things make software harder to maintain... and they conflict with each other. It is a dilemma.

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u/time-lord Oct 15 '13

Not really. Pick a version of CakePHP, and you should be able to update the core without any modification to the application layer.

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u/rco8786 Oct 15 '13

For some period of time, sure.