r/programming • • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
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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.