Writing Unmaintainable Code
Bedazzling Names
Choose variable names with irrelevant emotional connotation. e.g.:
marypoppins = (superman + starship) / god;
This confuses the reader because they have difficulty disassociating the emotional connotations of the words from the logic they’re trying to think about.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code offers amusing advice for programmers looking to guarantee a lifetime of employment maintaining their own inpenetrable code.
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Nice, I’ll have to remember that! Cheers Tim!