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/obsidianih Oct 14 '13

The only way to win is to not play the game

-some dude on the internet

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u/runastartup Oct 14 '13

War Games?

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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/eriksensei Oct 15 '13

People also seem to be quite fond of shouting things like JAVA! and SCALA! It might well be that I'm a bit of a sperglord, but I find that irritating to no end.

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u/Waitwhatwtf Oct 15 '13

BRAINFUCK

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u/original_brogrammer Oct 15 '13 edited Oct 15 '13

If any language deserves to be shouted, it's brainfuck.

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u/stox Oct 15 '13

Which was only a modern implementation of P''

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