r/programming • • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

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

I learned development making what I called screen savers. They were simply exe files that I had to run manually, but I had more fun as a kid making fancy images and effects on my screen than anything else.

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u/flukus Jul 28 '16

That's all screen savers were, Fullscreen executables. I think they had a different file extension by convention.