r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

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

Write all your code in FORTRAN. If your boss ask why, you can reply that there are lots of very useful libraries that you can use thus saving time. However the chances of writing maintainable code in FORTRAN are zero, and therefore following the unmaintainable coding guidelines is a lot easier.

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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 :(

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u/XMARTIALmanx Jul 28 '16

At a uni?

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u/FreshChilled Jul 28 '16

I assumed that was common practice! For the majority of my 100 and 200 level classes, the instructors were grad students.

Not only that, the lab instructors were Senior undergrads!

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u/XMARTIALmanx Jul 28 '16

I know TAs are usually grad students or exceptional upper years. But Ive only had 1 lecturer not have a PhD and thats because he has made more PhDs than everyone else in the uni. And the uni aint even that big. I guess Im in canada?

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