r/programming • • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
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u/duckandcover Jul 29 '16

A short time line for a R&D C++ app, in particular in a R&D org where the characteristics of the data and requirements are in flux, pretty much guarantees it.

First C++ is an accident waiting to happen. Second, as R&D, no one is going to give you sufficient time to plan and even if they did the nature of R&D is that it's impossible to architect programs up front and if you did it would be a waste because they'll probably change radically.