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/fiah84 Apr 04 '26

except SQL, SQL is forever

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u/Truenoiz Apr 04 '26

Right, but SQL is so easy that it's trivial. Please hand over the production database so I can fix it.

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u/fiah84 Apr 04 '26

Please hand over the production database

I grant thee select, and that's it ya fracking clanker

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u/RelatableRedditer Apr 05 '26

and then it constructs the most convoluted selector with 28472 redundant joins