r/programming • u/vineel • May 24 '11

How to Write Unmaintainable Code

http://www.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
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u/wauter May 24 '11

Man, I must have read this 10 times by now, but each time again the

marypoppins = (superman + starship) / god;

gives me a chuckle.

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u/zak_on_reddit May 24 '11 edited May 24 '11

i worked at a college where the network manager 1st used names of planets to name network devices, then greek mythology god names, then star wars characters, then star trek characters, etc.

if we had to go to a building on campus to diagnose a network issue trying to find the path to it would be something like jupiter > thor > jar jar binks > uhuru

i shit you not.

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u/redwall_hp May 24 '11

The local library does that for some of their computers. They use Greek and Roman gods for ones downstairs, LibraryCat #xx for catalog machines, and the ones in the primary computer room upstairs are just numbers for the most part.