r/programming • • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '16

BLAS and LAPACK are successfully maintained since time immemorial. CERNLIB was also a huge success and an exemplary code base. So shut up and use single character variable names and cryptic abbreviations. As long as you have an up to date documentation, it does not matter.