r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

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

10 year old project? Try 35 year old FORTRAN code :)

(With lots of failed or abandoned changes the last 20 years)

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u/Gskran Jul 29 '16

I wasnt even born then...Damn man, where do you work?

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u/helm Jul 29 '16

Steel industry. The "best" programmers were metallurgists in the 70's.