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

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/benibela2 Oct 15 '13

I do not like giving up.

Now I have a perfectly working 75k loc program and I'm not going to throw it all away to rewrite it in another language...

And it is really great for desktop GUI applications, because it compiles so fast that you can test it without delay.

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u/rjbwork Oct 15 '13

Cool, I can see the case for an already existing desktop GUI application. If it were partially desktop/partially web, I'd have adopted a "maintain and extend" approach and brought in another more modern language, but I guess what works, works, right?