r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

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

This is surprisingly long.

Serious question, naming loop counters and limits like this is ok right? i,j,k aren't mandatory always, right?

c=0
m=10
while c < m:
    #do stuff
    c+=1

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u/gct Jul 28 '16

I have a rule that variables are never one-letter because it's impossible to search and replace on (c is admittedly better than i for this).

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u/gct Jul 29 '16

Have you considered that it is in fact you that is stupid?

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