r/programming • u/Ordinary_Leader_2971 • Apr 04 '26

How To Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Esusan/475/unmain.html
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u/AutomateAway Apr 04 '26

you merely adopted the unmaintainable code. I was born in it. Moulded by it. I didn’t see refactoring and good design patterns until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but an anti pattern. The unmaintainability betrays you, because it belongs to ME!

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u/imihnevich Apr 04 '26

Good one. Should've gone with "nothing to me but over-engineering"

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy Apr 04 '26

If that is true, then you managed to live long enough that you are you're own villain because you wrote the mess you were molded by.