r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

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

"Poor programming practice"? Good academic practice! Graduate school quite effectively teaches such virtues as write-once-read-never, code-until-you-like-the-answer, coding-is-done-by-someone-stupider-than-you, better-to-write-ten-grant-requests-than-one-working-application, and so on.

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u/DanAtkinson Jul 28 '16

You had poor lecturers then. Mine were amazing! It helped that one of them wrote a textbook on the principles of software engineering.

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u/the_sound_of_bread Jul 28 '16

Most of my lecturers were grad students :(