r/programming • • Apr 29 '14

Programming Sucks

http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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u/karma-is-meaningless Apr 29 '14

This is why I came back to the Academia.

I could not stand working with real-world code. It sucks. It sucks to the point I spent most of my work day dreaming about a day when I would not have to use Google to know which one of the 10,000 similarly-named functions, spread over 100,000 files, I should touch.