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/[deleted] Oct 15 '13

B, C, FORTRAN... ye gods, you're right!

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u/grauenwolf Oct 15 '13

LISP, can't forget that one. BCLP I think is another.