How To Write Unmaintainable Code

[Midnightwalk]

Came across this recently. It hurt. Both from laughing and from flashbacks.

[link:https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code/blob/master/README.md|]

[flyingfysh]

1. There is a book "Obfuscated C"

(for non-technical people: C is an old and important computer language)

There is (or was) a yearly contest to see who could write the most unreadable program in C. This books is a collection of some of the winners(?). It is worth a look.

[FM123]

2. My son got a big kick out of this! Alas, I am not very techie but generous about sharing great posts

[gtar100]

3. If you've got a file to read into the program,

name the variable representing the file "if". I was the lucky recipient of a series of scripts written in Tcl/Expect and the programmer did just that.

set if filename

Scratched my head for a bit until I finally realized what he'd done.

[ManiacJoe]

4. While that was fun to read,

fortunately most modern coding houses do not allow for any of that nonsense.

[radhashetty]

5. Thanks

Very good information. Thanks for sharing such interesting post.