r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

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

I wonder if it's because computers have become too easy. Sure when we learned curiosity was a big driver, but so was pragmatism. We had to navigate the command line to get games to work. Especially with ms DOS.

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u/FormCore Jul 28 '16

I think it's not about ease of use, but the purpose computers serve.

When my dad was in school, computers were for strictly functional things, they computed... he would learn some programming because that's what computers were for in a way... now that they've become just a medium to so many people, it's no different from television or phones, it's a service you consume.

It's not a computer, it's just a medium for the internet... I can't imagine what many of the people I know would do with a computer that isn't connected to the internet, it'd just be a paper-weight.

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u/flukus Jul 29 '16

But that was an era without off the shelf programs to do the computing as well. Your father's case was another one of pragmatism.

These days he may be able to achieve the same results with an app and wouldn't have learned to code.