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Sep 19, 2021 · Fundamentals

How to Write Unmaintainable Code: A Satirical Guide

This tongue‑in‑cheek article enumerates a series of deliberately harmful programming practices—from confusing naming conventions and deceptive comments to excessive abstraction, misuse of inheritance, and avoidance of testing—intended to make code virtually impossible to understand, maintain, or debug.