User: LoneWolfiNTj

It's no joke, alas.

On: How To Write Unmaintainable Code

I swear, this article must have been the source of inspiration,
the bible, the standard-operating-principles manual, of the
former chief programmer here where I work. He thought he was
making himself irreplaceable by coding according to those
standards. He thought wrong! His code was so un-maintainable
that even HE couldn't maintain it, so the bugs piled up, and
he eventually got fired.

Which means, unfortunately, that I get to disentangle his code,
which is proving to be quite challenging.

I wonder how many programmers out there actually do program
that way on purpose? I suspect a lot. The idea of (supposedly)
insuring one's job security by making one's code impossible to
understand is alluring. But ultimately disastrous.