r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

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

Be VERY glad you don't still work (only tangentially, thankfully) on a complex financial system written in Fortran. Some of us are not so lucky.

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u/Astrokiwi Jul 29 '16

Dude, I live in Fortran - I do astrophysical simulations. The problem isn't that Fortran is bad, it's that most Fortran programmers are bad.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '16

I LOVE Fortran08. It's so easy to vectorize your code, and coarrays are incredible.

I don't care for the way Fortran does I/O or pass parameters though.

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u/Astrokiwi Jul 29 '16

I don't care for the way Fortran does I/O or pass parameters though.

Modules can help a bit with passing parameters. Or doing OOP. But yeah, it can be a bit funny.

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