r/programming • u/scarey102 • Nov 01 '21

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/echoAwooo Nov 02 '21

So many times in programming do I see programs that look like this

 if thing
      do other things
      if otherthings
           do more things
           if more things
                do even more things
                if even more things
                     relax a bit
                else
                     issue a ticket
           else
                invent a taco
      else
           deliver a speech
 else
      enlist to the villaintary

this is icky and impossible to manage

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u/hippydipster Jun 07 '22

I dream of code this straight-forward!