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dp

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How To Write Unmaintainable Code

http://www.mindprod.com/unmainmisc.html

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phrakture

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Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code

I think this is one of those "living documents" - every time I see it there's a few new things added....

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phrakture

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Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code

yes!

One Missing File
: Make sure that one or more critical files is missing. This is best done with includes of includes. For example, in your main module, you have

      #include <stdcode.h>

Stdcode.h is available. But in stdcode.h, there's a reference to

      #include "a:\refcode.h"

and refcode.h is no where to be found.

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cactus

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Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code

I think I posted a similar one at one time, but it got swallowed in the off-topic purge a while back. heh..Now I can bookmark it. Thanks dp.

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