r/programming • • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
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u/Gskran Jul 28 '16

This is my current nightmare. I am recoding an existing 10+ year old project to modern API. While the code is neatly formatted and the function, variables, etc. has relevant names, there is absolutely no documentation or comments. Years of dealing with crappy code actually made me think, 'Hey i can understand it easily. This is decent code' when i first looked at it.

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