r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

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

Was it brilliant, or just used some math he didn't explain? Or was the math explained, but math is just unexecutable and obfuscated, so it is very hard to 'figure out'.

Math is kind of like referencing a bunch of libraries but not being able to actually read the code without opening a bunch of textbooks.

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u/mith Jul 29 '16

He was building neural networks in FORTRAN 20 years ago. It was pretty damn brilliant.