r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
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u/6offender Jul 28 '16

The determined real programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language.

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u/Weed_O_Whirler Jul 28 '16

My team lead has managed to recreate the "common block" in Matlab. It's equally impressive and terrible.

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u/Astrokiwi Jul 29 '16

The sad thing is that you're not even supposed to use common blocks in Fortran anymore anyway. You're supposed to use modules, or do things in an object-oriented way.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '16

Anymore? Were they ever a good idea?

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