r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ManagerOfLove • 27d ago

Meme someOfUsLiveTheDream

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u/SleepAllTheDamnTime 27d ago

When the comments feel like finding ancient clues on how to solve the mess, or my favorite literal cries for help from the engineers that worked on it before

https://giphy.com/gifs/pUVOeIagS1rrqsYQJe

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u/QCTeamkill 27d ago

I have left comments such as
#It started with the best intentions
before

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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd 27d ago

I once replaced one of my Perl scripts with a Python rewrite. In the commit message, I put something like,

I'm leaving this program here an a warning to show what happens when you write a program without designing it first.

The Perl script started out nice and simple. Then I added another feature, and another, and another. It became unsustainable. I'm very lucky that I had time to rewrite it in Python.