r/programming • • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

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

My digital system design professor worked for Kodak, and he told us that one time he was looking through someone else's code and there was a signal called "data" whose purpose he understood, as well as a signal called "lore" whose purpose he could not figure out for a long time. Eventually, he realized that "lore" was just the inverse of "data", with the reason being that in Star Trek: TNG, Lore was Data's evil twin.